Mutual Othering
Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing
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Mutual Othering
Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing
About this book
For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic are juxtaposed with French and British writing about Morocco in a critical exploration of nineteenth-century concepts of modernity. Ahmed Idrissi Alami investigates the complex dynamics concerning colonial expansion, military conflict, and societal values. Mutual Othering sets out to rethink generally accepted concepts of European modernity by critically examining its production and contestation within a subaltern context in which the native other—in this case, religious scholars or imams accompanying political missions to Paris and London—presents aspects of European culture to elite members of the Moroccan imperial court. This work also connects the arguments of these texts to the rethinking of tradition and modernity, the rhetoric of reform, democracy and the Arab state, and the compatibility of Islam with the West and secular values in the post-9/11 world. The inclusion of citations in the original French and Arabic, alongside English translations, allows a range of readers to enjoy this critical addition to the fields of literature, travel writing, North African studies, history, international relations, and philosophy, as well as cultural and religious studies.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Literary Depictions of the Moor, Travel Writing, and the Maghreb
- Chapter 2: The Riḥla to Europe: Transcultural Islam and the Islamization of Modernity
- Chapter 3: Visions of Morocco and Its Premodernity in French Travel Writing
- Chapter 4: Slavery, Racism, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in British Travel Writing
- Chapter 5: Conclusions and Contemporary Debates
- Notes
- References