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A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide, a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue

A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide, a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue

Verskin, Alan

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Adventurers & ExplorersTravel WritingArabian PeninsulaGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1503607739
ISBN13: 9781503607736
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 8 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, Habshush wrote A Vision of Yemen, a memoir of their travels, that provides a vivid account of daily life, religion, and politics. More than a simple travelogue, it is a work of trickster-tales, thick anthropological descriptions, and reflections on Jewish-Muslim relations. At its heart lies the fractious and intimate relationship between the Yemeni coppersmith and the enlightened European scholar and the collision between the cultures each represents. The book thus offers a powerful indigenous response to European Orientalism.

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