An Arab ambassador in the Mediterranean world : the travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi / Nabil Matar.

An Arab ambassador in the Mediterranean world : the travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi / Nabil Matar.

9781315762753 (e-book)
1315762757 (e-book)
9781317649243
1317649249
9781138791527
1138791520

London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015.

©2015

English

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations, maps.

DS47.M473 .M383 2015eb

910.9182/2

This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to Christendom and Islam. Translating excerpts from his three travelogues, this book tells the story of al-Miknasi's travels from 1779-1788. As an ambassador, al-Miknasi was privy to court life, government offices and religious buildings, and he provides detailed accounts of cities, people, customs, ransom negotiations, historical events and political institutions. Including descriptions of Europeans, Arabs, Turks, Christians (both European and Eastern), Muslims, Jews, and (American) Indians in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World explores how the most travelled Muslim writer of the pre-modern period saw the world: from Spain to Arabia and from Morocco to Turkey, with second-hand information about the New World. Supplemented with extensive notes detailing the historic and political relevance of the translations, this book is of interest to researchers and scholars of Mediterranean History, Ottoman Studies and Muslim-Christian relations. -- Amazon.com.

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Culture and civilisation in the Middle East ; 49.

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