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 - or Leo Africanus - is a celebrated but hithero elusive figure. Here, in Trickster Travels , distinguished historian Natalie Zemon-Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Format: Paperback, 464 pages, 127mm x 197mm, 365 g
Published: 2008, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Description
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 - or Leo Africanus - is a celebrated but hithero elusive figure. Here, in Trickster Travels , distinguished historian Natalie Zemon-Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds