The European other in medieval Arabic literature and culture
Subtitle: ninth-twelfth century, AD
By: Nizar F. Hermes
Series: New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230109407
Subjects: Europe; Arab Foreign public opinion; Arabic prose literature; Public opinion; Other (Philosophy); History and criticism; Relations; Sources; Muslims; Attitudes; Arabic poetry; Europeans; Gaze; Christians; History
Other titles: Other in medieval Arabic literature and culture
Notes: On t.p. the word European is enclosed in brackets.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Translation, Travel, and the Other : the Fascination with Greek and Oriental Cultures; title: European Barbarity and Civilization in some Medieval Arabic Geographical Sources : Al-Masudi and al-Bakri as Two Case Studies; title: Writing the North : Europe and Europeans in Medieval Arabic Travel Literature; title: Poetry, Frontiers, and Alterity : Views and Perceptions of al-Rum (Byzantines) and al-Ifranja (Crusaders); title: Appendix of Translated Poetry.