Leo Africanus
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Leo Africanus
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Author : Amin Maalouf
language : en
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Release Date : 1998-03-25
Leo Africanus written by Amin Maalouf and has been published by New Amsterdam Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-25 with Fiction categories.
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus.
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained
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Author : Leo (Africanus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained written by Leo (Africanus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Africa categories.
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained
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Author : Leo (Africanus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained written by Leo (Africanus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Africa categories.
Leo S Travels In The Sudan
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Author : Leo (Africanus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Leo S Travels In The Sudan written by Leo (Africanus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Sudan categories.
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained
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Author : Leo (Africanus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained written by Leo (Africanus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Africa categories.
The History And Description Of Africa
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Author : Leo Africanus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-03
The History And Description Of Africa written by Leo Africanus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-03 with History categories.
This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1896) contains a description of northern Africa in the sixteenth century.
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained
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Author : Leo (Africanus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The History And Description Of Africa And Of The Notable Things Therein Contained written by Leo (Africanus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Africa categories.
Trickster Travels
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Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Release Date : 2008
Trickster Travels written by Natalie Zemon Davis and has been published by Faber & Faber Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Africanists categories.
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco--became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised. Historian Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a fresh interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.--From publisher description.
The Cosmography And Geography Of Africa
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Author : Leo Africanus
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-03-02
The Cosmography And Geography Of Africa written by Leo Africanus and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-02 with History categories.
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa. The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals. Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it. Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff
Travel Knowledge
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Author : I. Kamps
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-12
Travel Knowledge written by I. Kamps and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-12 with Social Science categories.
These essays examine European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. By focusing on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalised travellers to speak.