Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds / Natalie Zemon Davis.
2006
DT19.7.L46 D385 2006 (Mapit)
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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)
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-411) and index.
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Living in the land of Islam
Living in the land of war
Writing in Italy
Between Africa and Europe
Conceiving Africa
Between Islam and Christianity
Curiosity and connections
Translation, transmission, and distance
The return.
Living in the land of war
Writing in Italy
Between Africa and Europe
Conceiving Africa
Between Islam and Christianity
Curiosity and connections
Translation, transmission, and distance
The return.