TY - BOOK AU - Idrissi Alami,Ahmed ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Mutual othering: Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing AV - DT309 .I48 2013eb U1 - 916.404/3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Travelers' writings, European KW - Morocco KW - History and criticism KW - Travelers' writings, Arabic KW - Europe KW - European prose literature KW - 19th century KW - Arabic prose literature KW - East and West in literature KW - Islam in literature KW - Ethnology in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Description and travel KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10735567 ER -