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010 $a 2005017706
020 $a0809094347 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM60742046
035 $a(NNC)5592108
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050 00 $aDT19.7.L46$bD385 2006
082 00 $a909/.5/092$aB$222
100 1 $aDavis, Natalie Zemon,$d1928-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82156876
245 10 $aTrickster travels :$ba sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds /$cNatalie Zemon Davis.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHill and Wang,$c2006.
300 $a435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [383]-411) and index.
520 1 $a"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 new book, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that this celebrated figure left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work." "As a young man, al-Hasan traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez, until he was captured in 1518 by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by Pope Leo X, then released when he converted to Christianity. For the next decade he lived in Italy as the Christian scholar Giovanni Leone; it was then that he wrote his famous Descriptions of Africa. After the sack of Rome in 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa. Davis describes each sector of this dramatic life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds, the Islamic and Arab traditions and ideas available to him, and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders." "Drawing on all his manuscripts - including ones previously unknown - Davis explores the places and people al-Hasan encountered and the books that shaped his work. We see him studying law and theology in a Fez madrasa; talking with nomads and merchants; reciting poetry; teaching Arabic to a cardinal in Rome; creating an Arabic-Hebrew-Latin dictionary with a scholarly Jew in Bologna. And we see him emerge as an author, using Arabic genres but writing in Italian and Latin for European readers." "Davis's work suggests that the experiences and writings of this adventurous border-crosser bear witness to the possibilities for connection, exchange, and even intimacy among peoples living in a divided world, and to the many ways that they negotiate cultural barriers and fuse divergent traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aLeo,$cAfricanus,$dapproximately 1492-approximately 1550.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85059224
650 0 $aAfricanists$zEurope$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017706.html
852 00 $bglx$hDT19.7.L46$iD385 2006
852 00 $bbar$hDT19.7.L46$iD385 2006