In this Book
- An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
- Series: Middle Eastern Literature in Translation
summary
In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias-al- Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. al- Mûsili, a seventeenth century Arab and priest of the Chaldean Church, traveled widely across colonial Spanish America becoming the first person to visit the Americas from Baghdad. Rabbât transcribed into Arabic and published those portions relating to al-Mûsili’s travels and Middle Eastern historian Caesar Farah is the first to make these writings available in English translation.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Map, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Translator’s Introduction
- pp. xv-xxx
- Book of Travel
- pp. 5-106
- Further Reading, Back Cover
- pp. 150-151
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815650621
Related ISBN(s)
9780815632665
MARC Record
OCLC
607024822
Pages
152
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No