Reorienting the East Caroline Walker Bynum Bowersock and Brian Bosworth

Bowersock and Brian Bosworth

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"Waa'aka' was born when the earth was soft and the waters were new

Through moving personal interviews

Reorienting the East Caroline Walker Bynum Bowersock and Brian BosworthThe first comprehensive investigation of premodern Jewish travel writing about the Islamic world Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The first comprehensive investigation of Jewish travel writing from this era, this study engages with questions raised by postcolonial studies and contributes to the debate over the nature