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Trickster Travels
Davis, Natalie Zemon
Publisher: Hill and WangYear First Published: 2006 Year Published: 2007 Pages: 435pp ISBN: 0-8090-9435-5 Dewey: 909'.5'092 Resource Type: Book The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, was born al-Hasan al-Wazzan to a Muslim family that in 1492 moved from Granada to Morocco. In this remarkable book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that this celebrated figure left behind. Abstract: TABLE OF CONTENTS Note on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: Crossings ONE Living in the Land of Islam TWO Living in the Land of War THREE Writing in Italy FOUR Between Africa and Europe FIVE Conceiving Africa SIX Between Islam and Christianity SEVEN Curiosity and Connections EIGHT Translation, Transmission and Distance NINE The Return Epilogue: Affinities Notes Glossary of Arabic Words Bibliography Acknowlegements Index Subject Headings |