Mutual Othering: Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing

Ahmed Idrissi Alami

Paperback, 272 pages

9781438447346

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Contents

1. Literary Depictions of the Moor, Travel Writing, and the Maghreb

2. The Riḥla to Europe: Transcultural Islam and the Islamization of Modernity

3. Visions of Morocco and Its Premodernity in French Travel Writing

4. Slavery, Racism, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in British Travel Writing

5. Conclusions and Contemporary Debates