Migrations to the North. Images of the West in Arabic Literature
By comparing some texts of the Arabic travel literature, this article aims to reverse the perception of the cardinal direction, West/East North/South. Travel seems to be a recurrent theme in the Arabic tradition: the ‘holy’ voyage, the pilgrimage to Mecca, which allowed mediaeval geographers to desc...
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| Language: | English |
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UNICApress
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Between |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/276 |