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Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online

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Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online

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978-90-04-19278-2

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105482

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Western Travellers in the Islamic World, Part 1

Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for research on historical relations between "East" and "West" and are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre-modern period a large number of such accounts were published all over Europe, and almost without exception these volumes are now scarce and priceless. Some were republished later in modern editions (like those in the Hakluyt series), but these are often out of print at present.

IDC Publishers has brought together 143 travel accounts from more than 15 different libraries. This unique IDC collection offers a representative sample of Western travelogues in English, French, and German published until 1800. Predominantly covering the Ottoman Empire, the collection also stretches into Ethiopia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, North Africa, and of course Iran.

These texts document the political, diplomatic, commercial, and cultural relations between the Islamic world and the West in the pre-modern period. Some focus on military conflicts, others on peaceful contacts, but all allow us to reconstruct the shifting images and biases in the West, concerning Muslims and the Islamic world, that are still relevant today.

Well known works include those by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1520/1-1592); Pietro della Valle (1586-1652); J.B. Tavernier (1605-1689); Jean de Thevenot (1633-1667); John Chardin (1643-1713); Cornelis de Bruyn (le Brun; 1652-1726); J.P. de Tournefort (1656-1708); Richard Pococke (1704-1765); James Bruce (1730-1794); and Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815).

Less often quoted, but equally interesting are the accounts of Palestine of Jewish travellers in the fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century; Chandler's Travels in Asia Minor; B.E.A. Rottiers, Itinéraire de Tiflis à Constantinople; and Adolphus Slade's Records of Travel , and several accounts of travel to Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and Central Asia.

This first part contains titles previously published in other IDC collections (Early Western Books, Travels, Armenian Sources).

Western Travellers in the Islamic World, Part 2

Western Travellers in the Islamic World, Part 2 Travel accounts filmed in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for research on historical relations between "East" and "West" and are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre-modern period a large number of such accounts were published all over Europe, and almost without exception these volumes are now scarce and priceless.

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