Europe through Arab eyes, 1578-1727 /

Europe through Arab eyes, 1578-1727 /

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Author / Creator:Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949-
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 313 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Arabs -- Attitudes.
Arabs -- Attitudes.
International relations.
Public opinion, Arab.
Arab countries -- Relations -- Europe.
Europe -- Relations -- Arab countries.
Europe -- Foreign public opinion, Arab.
Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Arab countries -- History -- 1517-1918 -- Sources.
Arab countries.
Europe.
Electronic books.
History.
Sources.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150009
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ISBN:9780231512084
0231512082
9780231141949
0231141947
1280598298
9781280598296
9786613628121
6613628123
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and index.
English.
Summary:Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese i.
Other form:Print version: Matar, N.I. (Nabil I.), 1949- Europe through Arab eyes, 1578-1727. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments xi; A Note on Transliteration xvii; Chronology xix; List of Rulers xxiii; PART ONE; Introduction 3; I. Popular Sources: Accounts of Muslim Captivity in Christendom 29; The Captives "Speak"-and Write 41; Captivity and the Other 51; Captivity and Karamat 55; Captivity of Women 60; European Captives and New Muslims 65; II. Elite Sources: Muslim Ambassadors in Christendom 72; Al- Nafhah al- Miskiyah 77; Ahmad ibn Qasim and Fakhr al- DIn al- Maʻni II 80; The Widening Exposure 93; Ambassadors and European Women 106; Non-Muslim Ambassadors 114.
  • Conclusion: Encountering the Dunya of the Christians 118Nasr 122; Sinaʻ a/Technology 125; PART TWO; Translations 139; 1. 1578: Letters of Radwan al- Janawy on Muslim Captives, in Tuhfatal- Ikhwan, Rabat National Library, MS Kaf 154, fols. 423-424, 427-428. 141; 2. After 1588: Description of the Defeat of the Armada, by Abu Faris 'Abdal-ʻAziz al- Fishtali, in Rasa'il Saʻdiyah, ed. ʻAbdallah Gannun, 152-157. 144.
  • 7. 1633-1635: Letters from Tunis by Osman/Thomas d'Arcos, a Convert to Islam, Les Correspondants de Peiresc:Lettres inédites publiées et annotées, ed. PhilippeTamizey de Larroque, 2:23-28, 36-39. French original.46 1868. 1635: Letter About Muslim Captives Converted toChristianity, Rabat National Library, MS Ji ̄m 223,101-103. 192; 9. 1635: Expulsion of the Moriscos, Muhammad ibnʻAbd al- RafI ʻ ibn Muhammad al- Andalusi, Al- Anwaral- Nabawiyah fi ̄ Aba' Khair al- Bariyah, in A. Turki, "Watha'iq al- hijra al- Andalusiyah al- Akhirah, "Hawliyat al- Jamiʻah al- Tunisiyah 4 (1967): 27-39.56 194.

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