Ibrahem Almarhaby College of Liberal Arts & Science, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Department of Arabic language and literature, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
Al-Ṭahṭāwī in Paris: Western Influence on Format and Style in Early Modern Arabic Travel Literature
Ibrahem Almarhaby
Abstract
This study investigates format and style in the first modern Arab travel source, Takhliṣ al-Ibriz fī Talkhiṣ Paris, written by Sheikh al-Ṭahṭāwī in the 19th century. During this century, the connection between the Eastern Self and the Western Other became closer and more immediate culturally and politically, which undeniably impacted literature on both thematic and artistic levels. This paper addresses the extent to which the format and style of al-Ṭahṭāwī was influenced by the Other and to determine how these artistic aspects had changed and were distinct from those aspects in medieval travel literature.
Keywords
Travel Literature, Arabic Literature, the Self, the Other, Modern Arabic Travel Literature, Literature.
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