Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727.
Title:
Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727.
Author:
Matar, Nabil.
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9780231512084
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1 online resource (290 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- List of Chronology -- List of Rulers -- Part One -- Introduction -- I. Popular Sources: Accounts of Muslim Captivity in Christendom -- The Captives "Speak"-and Write -- Captivity and the Other -- Captivity and Karamat -- Captivity of Women -- European Captives and New Muslims -- II. Elite Sources: Muslim Ambassadors in Christendom -- Al-Nafhah al-Miskiyah -- Ahmad ibn Qasim and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ma'ni II -- The Widening Exposure -- Ambassadors and European Women -- Non-Muslim Ambassadors -- Conclusion: Encountering the Dunya of the Christians -- Nasr -- Sina'a / Technology -- Part Two -- Translations -- 1. 1578: Letters of Radwan al-Janawy on Muslim Captives, in Tuhfat al-Ikhwan, Rabat National Library, MS Kaf 154, fols. 423-424, 427-428. -- 2. After 1588: Description of the Defeat of the Armada, by Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Azīz al-Fishtali, in Rasa'il Sa'diyah, ed. 'Abdallah Gannūn, 152-157. -- 3. ca. 1589-1591: A Journey from Morocco to Istanbul and Back, in Abu Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali Muhammad al-Tamjruti, Al-Nafhah al-Miskiyah fī al-Safarah al-Turkiyah, ed. 'Abd al-Latīf al-Shadhili, 28-29, 41-42, 65, 74-76, 84-86, 90-94, 128-132, 140-141. -- 4. After June 1596: Description of the English Attack on Cadiz, in Abu Faris 'Abd al-'Azīz al-Fishtali, Manahil al-Safa', ed. 'Abd al-Karīm Karīm, 193-196. -- 5. 1613-1618: Description of Pisa and Florence, in Lunban fī 'Ahd al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ma'ni al-Thani, ed. Asad Rustum and Fu'ad Afram al-Bustani, 208-224. -- 6. 1623: Expulsion of the Moriscos and the Miraculous Ransoming of Muslim Captives, in Al-Muntasir ibn Abi Lihya al-Qafsi, Nūr al-Armash fī Manaqib al-Qashash, ed. Lutfi 'Isa and Husayn Bujarrah, 138-141, 151-154.
7. 1633-1635: Letters from Tunis by Osman/Thomas d'Arcos, a Convert to Islam, Les Correspondants de Peiresc: Lettres inédites publiées et annotées, ed. Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, 2:23-28, 36-39. French original. -- 8. 1635: Letter About Muslim Captives Converted to Christianity, Rabat National Library, MS Jīm 223, 101-103. -- 9. 1635: Expulsion of the Moriscos, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rafī' ibn Muhammad al-Andalusi, Al-Anwar al-Nabawiyah fī Aba' Khayr al-Bariyah, in A. Turki, "Wathai'q al-Hijra al-Andalūsiyah al-Akhīrah," Hawliyat al-Jami'ah al-Tunisiyah 4 (1967): 27-39. -- 10. 1642: Description of the World, in Ahmad ibn Qasim, Nasir al-Dīn 'ala al-Qawm al-Kafirīn, ed. Muhammad Razzūq, 95-99. -- 11a. Before 1688: Christian Attack on Jarbah (Tunisia) in 1510, in Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Hilati, 'Ulama' Jarbah, ed. Muhammad Qawjah, 32-39. -- 11b. 1685: Bombardment of Tripoli, Libya, by the French Fleet, in Ahmad ibn Khaled al-Nasiri, Tal'at al-Mushtari, 2:28-30. -- 12. 1681-1691: Battle Accounts, in Taqayīd Tarīkhiyah, Rabat Royal Library, MS 12352. -- 13. 1590-1654: Euro-Tunisian Piracy, in Ibn Abi Dinar, Kitab al-Mu'nis fī Akhbar Ifrīqiyah wa-Tūnis, 190-202. -- 14. Before September 2, 1706: Letter of Mulay Isma'il to the English Parliament, Les Sources Filalienne, ed. Brissac, 6:349-354. -- 15. November 1, 1707: Letter from a Captive in France, ed. Jamal Vannan, Nusūs wa Watha'iq fī Tarīkh al-Jaza'ir al-Hadīth 1500-1830, 144-145. -- 16a. 1713: Letters of Bentura de Zari, Moroccan Ambassador Under House Arrest in London, National Archives, Kew, SP 71/16/63-65, 70-71. English original. -- 16b. January 12, 1717: Letter of Mulay Isma'il to Philip V, in Muhammad al-Saghīr al-Ifranī, Rawdat al-Ta'rīf, ed. 'Abd al-Wahab Benmansour, 133-134. -- 17. 1726-1727: On Quinine, in Husayn Khūjah, Al-Asrar al-Kamīnah, ed. al-Karray al-Qusantīni, 31-43.
18. Mid-Eighteenth century: Captivity in Malta, in Abu al-Qasim al-Zayani, Al-Tarjumanah al-Kubra, ed. 'Abd al-Karīm al-Filali, 192-193. -- 19. 1782: Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi. Falling in Love in Naples, in Al-Badr al-Safir li Hidayat al-Musafir ila Fikak al-Asara min Yad al-'Aduww al-Kafir. Rabat National Library, MS Ha 52, fols. 145-150. -- 20. 1798: Letter from a Female Captive in Malta, Muhammad Razzūq, Dirasat fī Tarīkh al-Maghrib, 178-181. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese invading army, Matar surveys this early modern period, in which Europeans and Arabs often shared common political, commercial, and military goals. Matar concentrates on how Muslim captives, ransomers, traders, envoys, travelers, and rulers pursued those goals while transmitting to the nonprint cultures of North Africa their knowledge of the peoples and societies of Spain, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period. Letters from male and female captives in Europe, chronicles of European naval attacks and the taqayid (newspaper) reports on Muslim resistance, and descriptions of opera and quinine appear here in English for the first time. Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and
the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France.
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