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  1. Beyond orientalism
    Ahmad ibn Qāsim al-Hajarī between Europe and North Africa
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    "This book focuses on Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-ca. 1641), a Morisco who fled Spain where this minority of Muslim origins was persecuted. He led a successful career in North Africa, as a secretary to several Sultans in Morocco, and as a... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "This book focuses on Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-ca. 1641), a Morisco who fled Spain where this minority of Muslim origins was persecuted. He led a successful career in North Africa, as a secretary to several Sultans in Morocco, and as a prolific translator and writer. He produced autobiographical texts, and translations between Spanish and Arabic, which attest to the important role he played in the cultural, diplomatic, and scientific connections between Europe and North Africa during the early modern period. This book situates his work within several contexts: the development of early modern Orientalism, the intellectual life of the Maghreb, and the history of technological circulation in the Western Mediterranean"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780520390454; 0520390458
    RVK Categories: MS 1200
    Subjects: Schriftsteller; Arabisch; Übersetzer; Kulturaustausch; Intellektueller; Übersetzung; Morisken; Spanisch; Geistesleben; Wissenschaftstransfer; Orientalisierende Literatur
    Other subjects: Ḥaǧarī, Aḥmad Ibn-Qāsim al- (1570-1640); Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century / Travel / Europe; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century / Travel / Africa, North; Orientalism; Africa, North / Intellectual life / 17th century; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century; Intellectual life; Orientalism; Travel; Europe; North Africa; 1600-1699
    Scope: xii, 314 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Ahmad al-Hajarî : trajectories of exile -- Networks of orientalism : out of the shadows -- Hajarî : a Morisco writer in the Arabic Republic of letters -- Hajarî in the world -- A harbor on the Atlantic Coast -- Artillery and practical knowledge in North Africa -- Conclusion

  2. Beyond orientalism
    Ahmad ibn Qāsim al-Hajarī between Europe and North Africa
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    "This book focuses on Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-ca. 1641), a Morisco who fled Spain where this minority of Muslim origins was persecuted. He led a successful career in North Africa, as a secretary to several Sultans in Morocco, and as a... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "This book focuses on Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-ca. 1641), a Morisco who fled Spain where this minority of Muslim origins was persecuted. He led a successful career in North Africa, as a secretary to several Sultans in Morocco, and as a prolific translator and writer. He produced autobiographical texts, and translations between Spanish and Arabic, which attest to the important role he played in the cultural, diplomatic, and scientific connections between Europe and North Africa during the early modern period. This book situates his work within several contexts: the development of early modern Orientalism, the intellectual life of the Maghreb, and the history of technological circulation in the Western Mediterranean"--

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780520390454; 0520390458
    RVK Categories: MS 1200
    Subjects: Schriftsteller; Arabisch; Übersetzer; Kulturaustausch; Intellektueller; Übersetzung; Morisken; Spanisch; Geistesleben; Wissenschaftstransfer; Orientalisierende Literatur
    Other subjects: Ḥaǧarī, Aḥmad Ibn-Qāsim al- (1570-1640); Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century / Travel / Europe; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century / Travel / Africa, North; Orientalism; Africa, North / Intellectual life / 17th century; Ibn al-Ḥajarī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim / active 17th century; Intellectual life; Orientalism; Travel; Europe; North Africa; 1600-1699
    Scope: xii, 314 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Ahmad al-Hajarî : trajectories of exile -- Networks of orientalism : out of the shadows -- Hajarî : a Morisco writer in the Arabic Republic of letters -- Hajarî in the world -- A harbor on the Atlantic Coast -- Artillery and practical knowledge in North Africa -- Conclusion