Martin Jacobs

Gebundenes Buch

Reorienting the East

Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World

Beschreibung

The first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world, Reorienting the East examines Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic travel accounts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries that subvert, or reorient a decidedly Christian vision of the region and reflect changing Jewish self-perceptions.

Autor

Martin Jacobs is Professor of Rabbinic Studies in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246223
• ISBN-10: 0812246225
• Artikelnr.: 40920787