Other Routes

Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references.

Tabish Khair teaches at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Justin D. Edwards is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Martin Leer is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Hanna Ziadeh is a Lebanese writer and translator who lives in Denmark.

Copyright Acknowledgements

vii

Foreword

ix

Amitav Ghosh

African and Asian Travel Texts in the Light of Europe: an Introduction

1

(27)

Tabish Khair

Note on the Process of Editing

28

(4)

Pilgrimages

Three Chinese Scholars go ``West'' to India (fifth-seventh century)

32

(10)

The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c: 838)

42

(5)

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (c. 990)

47

(7)

The Haj and Other Journeys of ibn Jubayr (b. 1145)

54

(17)

The Pilgrimages of Lady Nijo (b. 1271)

71

(7)

Studies

Al-Buruni's Defence of Hindu India (1030 AD)

78

(7)

The Horizons of al-Idrisi in the Eleventh Century

85

(17)

Two Chinese Accounts of the Early Mongols (1221 and 1237)

102

(10)

A Chinese Account of the Lost City of Angkor (1297)

112

(7)

Navigating with ibn Majid (floreat 1460)

119

(8)

Piri Reis: The Voyages of a ``Corsair'' (c. 1526)

127

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The Ambivalence of Leo Africanus (1526)

131

(15)

Autobiographies, Diaries & Memoirs

The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince-Polymath (b. 1273)

146

(9)

The Accidental Travels of a Korean Official (1488)

155

(7)

The Travel Memoirs of Babur (b. 1482)

162

(11)

The European Diaries of Uruch Beg (b. 1560)

173

(11)

The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1623)

184

(7)

Equiano's Voyage to Slavery and Freedom (1789)

191

(10)

Dean Mahomed Writes from the Centre (c. 1793)

201

(13)

African Muslim Slave Narratives of the Nineteenth Century

214

(23)

The Diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836)

237

(8)

The Shah of Iran in European Corridors (1873)

245

(16)

An African-Arab Princess in Europe (1881)

261

(13)

Travel Accounts

A Merchant of Baghdad Reports on a Viking Funeral (AD 922)

274

(7)

Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller (c. 1290)

281

(8)

Ibn Battuta, World Traveller (b. 1304)

289

(10)

An Arab Cleric in South America (1668-83)

299

(7)

The Poetry of Basho's Road (1689)

306

(10)

Mirza I'tesamuddin's Wonders of Vilayet (1765)

316

(11)

An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe (1803)

327

(21)

Al-Amraoui: Moroccan Ambassador to Europe (1860)

348

(8)

Blyden: A Pan-Africanist's Voyage to Palestine (1873)

356

(10)

Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890)

366

(17)

Notes

383

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Select Bibliography

403

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Index

417

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