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Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

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The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure. Al-Hasan al-Wazzan was born in Granada, and grew...
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

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Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan...