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Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds

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Captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptised, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone, Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - or Leo Africanus - is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure.

Here, in "Trickster Travels", distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that Al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.

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Faber & Faber
057120256X / 9780571202560
Hardback
04/01/2007
United Kingdom
English
[ix], 435 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
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Originally published: New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.