Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-century Muslim Between Worlds

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-century Muslim Between Worlds
ISBN-10
0809094347
ISBN-13
9780809094349
Category
History
Pages
435
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Natalie Zemon Davis

Description

Presents the story of Leo Africanus and his famous sixteenth-century geography of Africa that was to introduce the continent to European readers, in a detailed history that documents such elements of his life as his imprisonment by the pope, work as a Christian writer, and relationships with powerful individuals from a range of cultures and religions.

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