Abbasid Travel Literature

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1 Syllabus Abbasid Travel Literature Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: arabic language & literature Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Guy Ron-Gilboa Coordinator guy.ron-gilboa@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Teaching Staff: Mr. Guy Ron-Gilboa page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: We shall explore some of the oldest travel accounts in Arabic literary tradition. Course/Module aims: The main purpose of this course is an acquaintance with the characteristics of a literary genre. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Describe the characteristics of Abbasid Travel Literature; 2. Discuss major trends in the research of this genre; 3. compare between various travel accounts; 4. Discuss the connections between travel literature and other genres. Attendance requirements(%): 100 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Reading passages of works in the original Arabic; reading of research literature pertaining to these sources Course/Module Content: 1. Introduction to travel literature 2. Travelling to the end of the world Sallm al-tarחumns travel to the wall of חkח M and חkח Y 3. The Travel of Ibn Fa ln 4. India, the Land of Marvels (I) A+br al-b+n wa-l-hind 5. India, the Land of Marvels (II) - Aח¾ib al-hind 6. Conclusion Travel Fact & Travel Fiction Required Reading: Canard, Marius. La relation du voyage dibn Fadlan chez les bulgares de la Volga. Alger: Editions La Typo-Litho Et J.Carbonel, page 2 / 6

3 Donzel, E. J. van, and Andrea B Schmidt. Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallms Quest for Alexanders Wall. Brills Inner Asian Library 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. Some Thoughts on Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar al- Ramhormuzi: The Book of the Wonders of India. Paideuma 28 (1982): Hermes, Nizar F. The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD. 1st ed. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Kowalska, Maria. From Facts to Literary Fiction: Medieval Arabic Travel Literature. Quaderni di Studi Arabi 5/6 (1987): Ibn Fa lns Account of His Journey to the State of the Bul!rs. Folia Orientalia 14 (n.d.): Miquel,.יAndr La gיographie humaine du monde musulman jusquau milieu du 11e siטcle. 4 vols. Civilisations et Sociיtיs / Ecole des hautes tudesי en sciences sociales 7, 37, 68, 78. Paris: Mouton, Molan, Peter D. Sinbad the Sailor, a Commentary on the Ethics of Violence. Journal of the American Oriental Society 98, no. 3 (1978): Montgomery, James E. Travelling Autopsies: Ibn Fa ln and the Bulghr. Middle Eastern Literatures: Incorporating Edebiyat VII, no. 1 (2004): Pyrrhic Skepticism and the Conquest of Disorder: Prolegomena to the Study of Ibn Fa ln. In Problems in Arabic Literature, edited by M. Maroth, Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Serendipity, Resistance, and Multivalency: Ibn Khurraddhbih and His Kitb Al- Maslik Wa-L-Mamlik. In On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, edited by Philip F. Kennedy, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Netton, Ian Richard, ed. Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers. Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought. London: Routledge, Silverstein, Adam. Enclosed beyond Alexanders Barrier: On the Comparative Study of Abbsid Culture. Journal of the American Oriental Society 134, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): doi: /jameroriesoci The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context. In Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies, edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, S+rf+, Abk Zayd $asan ibn Yaz+d, and A%mad Ibn Fa ln. Two Arabic Travel Books. Edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and James E. Montgomery. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, S+rf+, Abk Zayd $asan ibn Yaz+d. A%br ac-b+n wa l-hind. Relation de la Chine et de linde rיdigיe en 851. Edited by Jean Sauvaget. Collection arabe. Paris: Belles Lettres, Touati, Houari. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago/; London: University Of Chicago Press, Wink,.יAndr Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. 2nd ed., amended. 4 vols. Leiden/; New York: E.J. Brill, Zadeh, Travis E. Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the Abbsid Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, page 3 / 6

4 Additional Reading Material: Beckingham, Charles Fraser. Between Islam and Christendom: Travelers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Collected Studies Series CS175. London: Variorum Reprints, Blake, Robert P., and Richard N. Frye. Notes on the Risala of Ibn-Fadlan. Byzantina Metabyzantina 1, no. 2 (1949): 737. Campbell, Mary Baine. The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Canard, Marius. La relation du voyage dibn Fadlan chez les bulgares de la Volga. Alger: Editions La Typo-Litho Et J.Carbonel, Ctesias, and Andrew G. Nichols. Ctesias On India and Fragments of His Minor Works. London: Bristol Classical Press, Donzel, E. J. van, and Andrea B Schmidt. Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources: Sallms Quest for Alexanders Wall. Brills Inner Asian Library 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, Eickelman, Dale F., and James P. Piscatori, eds. Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination. Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies 9. Berkeley: University of California Press, Euben, Roxanne L. Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. Some Thoughts on Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar al- Ramhormuzi: The Book of the Wonders of India. Paideuma 28 (1982): Hermes, Nizar F. The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD. 1st ed. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Hourani, George Fadlo. Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. Princeton University Press, Israeli, Raphael. Medieval Muslim Travelers to China. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 20, no. 2 (2000): Kowalska, Maria. From Facts to Literary Fiction: Medieval Arabic Travel Literature. Quaderni di Studi Arabi 5/6 (1987): Ibn Fa lns Account of His Journey to the State of the Bul!rs. Folia Orientalia 14 (n.d.): Mandeville, John. The Book of Marvels and Travels. Translated by Anthony Paul Bale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Martels, Zweder von, ed. Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing. Leiden: Brill, Miquel,.יAndr La gיographie humaine du monde musulman jusquau milieu du 11e siטcle. 4 vols. Civilisations et Sociיtיs / Ecole des hautes tudesי en sciences sociales 7, 37, 68, 78. Paris: Mouton, Molan, Peter D. Sinbad the Sailor, a Commentary on the Ethics of Violence. Journal of the American Oriental Society 98, no. 3 (1978): Montgomery, James E. Ibn Fa ln and the Rksiyyah. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 3 (2000): 125. page 4 / 6

5 . Travelling Autopsies: Ibn Fa ln and the Bulghr. Middle Eastern Literatures: Incorporating Edebiyat VII, no. 1 (2004): Pyrrhic Skepticism and the Conquest of Disorder: Prolegomena to the Study of Ibn Fa ln. In Problems in Arabic Literature, edited by M. Maroth, Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Serendipity, Resistance, and Multivalency: Ibn Khurraddhbih and His Kitb Al- Maslik Wa-L-Mamlik. In On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, edited by Philip F. Kennedy, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Netton, Ian Richard, ed. Islamic and Middle Eastern Geographers and Travellers. Critical Concepts in Islamic Thought. London: Routledge, Seek Knowledge: Thought and Travel in the House of Islam. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, Silverstein, Adam. Enclosed beyond Alexanders Barrier: On the Comparative Study of Abbsid Culture. Journal of the American Oriental Society 134, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): doi: /jameroriesoci The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context. In Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies, edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, S+rf+, Abk Zayd $asan ibn Yaz+d, and A%mad Ibn Fa ln. Two Arabic Travel Books. Edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and James E. Montgomery. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, S+rf+, Abk Zayd $asan ibn Yaz+d. A%br ac-b+n wa l-hind. Relation de la Chine et de linde rיdigיe en 851. Edited by Jean Sauvaget. Collection arabe. Paris: Belles Lettres, Tornesello, Natalia L. From Reality to Legend: Historical Sources of Hellenistic and Islamic Teratology. Studia Iranica 31, no. 2 (July 1, 2002): doi: /si Touati, Houari. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago/; London: University Of Chicago Press, Wink,.יAndr Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. 2nd ed., amended. 4 vols. Leiden/; New York: E.J. Brill, Zadeh, Travis E. Mapping Frontiers across Medieval Islam: Geography, Translation and the Abbsid Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011 Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 70 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 20 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % page 5 / 6

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