Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds
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Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds
Faber and Faber, 2007
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Trickster travels in search of Leo Africanus : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds
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First published in U.S.A. in 2006 by Hill and Wang
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-411) and index
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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 hitherto 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.
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