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Through the eyes of the beholder : the Holy Land, 1517-1713 / edited by Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 97.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004236240
  • 9004236244
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Through the eyes of the beholder.DDC classification:
  • 263/.042569409031 23
LOC classification:
  • BR205 .T47 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: Pilgrims and travelers: in search of the 'Holy' in Holy Land / Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar -- An Arabic Orthodox account of the Holy Land, c. 1590s / introduced by Nabil I. Matar and translated by Mohammad Asfour -- Early modern Russian pilgrims in the Holy Land / Galina I. Yermolenko -- Textual truths and lived experience. George Sandy's' A relation of a journey begun an: domini 1610 and William Biddulph's The travels of certain Englishmen / Julia Schleck -- Rescuing the Holy Land in Friar Jean Boucher's Bouquet sacré composé des plus belles fleurs de la Terre sainte / Richard Coyle -- Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname and the holiness of Jerusalem / Hasan Baktir -- Joseph Besson, French nationalism and possessing the Holy Land: in defense of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in Greater Syria, 1625-1660 / Mazin Tadros -- Cornelis de Bruyn: painter, traveler, curiosity collector -- spy? / Judy A. Hayden -- The Sufi and the chaplain: 'Abl al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and Henry Maundrell / Nabil I. Matar -- Early modern Jewish prayer in and for Israel / Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz -- A Lutheran in the Holy Land: Michael Eneman's journey, 1711-12 / Joachim Östlund -- Conclusion / Nabil I. Mata.
Summary: "The collection examines the view of holiness in the "Holy Land" through the writings of pilgrims, travelers, and missionaries. The period extends from 1517, the Ottoman conquest of Syria and Palestine, to the Franco-British treaty of Utrecht in 1713 and the consolidation of European hegemony over the Mediterranean. The writers in the collection include Christians (Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic), Muslims, and Jews, who originate from countries such as Sweden, England, France, Holland, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Syria. This book is the first to juxtapose writers of different backgrounds and languages, to emphasize the holiness of the land in a number of traditions, and to ask whether holiness was inherent in geography or a product of the piety of the writers"--Page 4 of cover
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)513467

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Introduction: Pilgrims and travelers: in search of the 'Holy' in Holy Land / Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar -- An Arabic Orthodox account of the Holy Land, c. 1590s / introduced by Nabil I. Matar and translated by Mohammad Asfour -- Early modern Russian pilgrims in the Holy Land / Galina I. Yermolenko -- Textual truths and lived experience. George Sandy's' A relation of a journey begun an: domini 1610 and William Biddulph's The travels of certain Englishmen / Julia Schleck -- Rescuing the Holy Land in Friar Jean Boucher's Bouquet sacré composé des plus belles fleurs de la Terre sainte / Richard Coyle -- Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname and the holiness of Jerusalem / Hasan Baktir -- Joseph Besson, French nationalism and possessing the Holy Land: in defense of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in Greater Syria, 1625-1660 / Mazin Tadros -- Cornelis de Bruyn: painter, traveler, curiosity collector -- spy? / Judy A. Hayden -- The Sufi and the chaplain: 'Abl al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and Henry Maundrell / Nabil I. Matar -- Early modern Jewish prayer in and for Israel / Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz -- A Lutheran in the Holy Land: Michael Eneman's journey, 1711-12 / Joachim Östlund -- Conclusion / Nabil I. Mata.

"The collection examines the view of holiness in the "Holy Land" through the writings of pilgrims, travelers, and missionaries. The period extends from 1517, the Ottoman conquest of Syria and Palestine, to the Franco-British treaty of Utrecht in 1713 and the consolidation of European hegemony over the Mediterranean. The writers in the collection include Christians (Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic), Muslims, and Jews, who originate from countries such as Sweden, England, France, Holland, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Syria. This book is the first to juxtapose writers of different backgrounds and languages, to emphasize the holiness of the land in a number of traditions, and to ask whether holiness was inherent in geography or a product of the piety of the writers"--Page 4 of cover