ARAB 402: Travel Literature in Arabic: Some Starting Points

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Covers the classical (pre-Islamic to 1258), transitional (1258-1798) and modern periods within a single work.

Sawyer PJ7525.2 .D413 2008 and Online
Traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century.

Sawyer PJ7538 .B265 1993
Survey of the whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century

Sawyer PJ7538 .M58 1992
Critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Includes an extensive bibliography.

Sawyer PJ7538 .S73 2006
Provides an introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. Encompasses a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, travel writing, history, and historiography.

Translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America in the seventeenth century. Includes the complete travel narrative of the first Arab to visit South and Central America in 1688, the first English translation of the ambassadorial report by Mohammad bin Abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani who traveled through Spain in 1690, translations of letters by the Morrocan ambassador to France and Morisco author Ahmad bin Qasim's account of his voyage from Holland to France in 1610.

Taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia.

Four volume set. The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'--the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world.

Traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions.

Discusses the concept of Rihla (travel) in search of knowledge, a primary motif in the lives of many medieval - and modern - Muslim scholars, jurists, collectors of tradition and, indeed, ordinary people.

Focusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present.

Explores various facets of the Islamic search for knowledge, with essays on aspects of Thought or Travel.

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. Voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures, they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world a coherent identity.