Disorienting Encounters
Subtitle: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845-1846. The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar (Comparative Studies on Muslim Soci)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 7, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520074620
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Cultural studies; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Islamic studies; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Ã²SaffÃ¥ar, MuÃ²hammad,; Description and travel; Biography / Autobiography; Saffar, Muhammad,; Europe; Morocco; Middle East - General; General; History / General; Travel; 19th cent.; 19th century; France; Paris; Paris (France); Social conditions; òSaffåar, Muòhammad,
First sentence: Sometime in the spring of 1846, with the fresh and heady scent of orange blossoms filling the gardens surrounding his native Tetuan, Muhammad as-Saffar, newly returned from travels in France, took up his pen and began to write.