Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

Introduction: Travel as Episteme—an Introductory Journey

pp 1-22

PART I - TRANSFORMING THE RIHLA TRADITION: THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE IN JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN TRAVELLERS

pp 23-24

Chapter 1 - From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani’s Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage

pp 25-46

Chapter 2 - Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts

pp 47-60

Chapter 3 - Vulnerable Medieval Iberian Travellers: Benjamin of Tudela’s Sefer ha-Massa’ot, Pero Tafur’s Andanças e viajes, and Ahmad al-Wazzan’s Libro de la Cosmogrophia et Geographia de Africa

pp 61-86

PART II - IMAGINING THE EAST: EGYPT, PERSIA, AND ISTANBUL IN MY MIND

pp 87-88

Chapter 4 - “Tierras de Egipto”: Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia

pp 89-110

Chapter 5 - The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert’s Re-vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile

pp 111-128

Chapter 6 - Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi‘ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts

pp 129-154

Chapter 7 - Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle’s Travel to Istanbul (1614–1615)

pp 155-184

PART III - TO THE EAST AND BACK: EXCHANGING OBJECTS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS

pp 185-186

Chapter 8 - Gift-giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246– 1248 ce)

pp 187-200

Chapter 9 - The East–West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza

pp 201-216

Chapter 10 - Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier

pp 217-234

Chapter 11 - The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618)

pp 235-256

Chapter 12 - Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit

pp 257-270

Selected Bibliography

pp 271-275

Index

pp 276-282