Leo The African

Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
ISBN 13 : 1461663318
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo Africanus written by Amin Maalouf and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus.

Author : Leo (Africanus)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things Therein Contained written by Leo (Africanus) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Africanus
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141998822
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmography and Geography of Africa written by Leo Africanus and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa. The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals. Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it. Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466829303
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trickster Travels written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the 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. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Author : I. Kamps
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134962263X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Knowledge written by I. Kamps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. By focusing on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalised travellers to speak.

Author : Leo Frobenius
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486409112
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Genesis written by Leo Frobenius and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of African folk tales and myths.

Author : Leo Zeilig
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 193185968X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa written by Leo Zeilig and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.

Author : Leo Wiener
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015475021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Discovery of America written by Leo Wiener and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leo Frobenius
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo Frobenius on African History, Art and Culture written by Leo Frobenius and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / by Léopold Sédar Senghor -- The "Atlas Africanus"--Discussion of the method of cultural history -- On the morphological method of studying cultures -- The nature of culture -- Reflections on African art -- Rock art of the Saharan atlas -- Rock art of the Fezzan -- Rock art of South Africa -- African hunters: the Mahalbi culture -- African hunters: bushmen and hunting spirits -- The civilization of the Kabyls -- Tales from the Sudan -- The religion of the Yoruba -- Zimbabwe and the Wahungwe civilization -- Editor's postscript -- Main works of Leo Frobenius -- Works on Leo Frobenius

Author : Amin Maalouf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780704326132
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo the African written by Amin Maalouf and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the life of Hasan al-Wazzan.