Trickster travels :: a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds /: Natalie Zemon Davis.

Davis, Natalie Zemon,

Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds / Natalie Zemon Davis.

Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-

2006

DT19.7.L46 D385 2006 (Mapit)

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Title Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds / Natalie Zemon Davis.

Author Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-

Edition 1st ed.

ISBN 9780809094349 (alk. paper)
0809094347 (alk. paper)

Publication Details New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.

Language English

Description 435 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Call Number DT19.7.L46 D385 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 909/.5/092 B

Summary Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised. Historian Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a fresh interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.--From publisher description.--From publisher description.

Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-411) and index.

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