An early modern dialogue with Islam : Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612) /

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This book makes available in translation a riveting sixteenth-century chronicle of European and North African cultural contacts that is virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. The Topography was written by a Portuguese cleric, Doctor Antonio de Sosa, who was captured by Algerian corsairs in 1...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sosa, Antonio de, -1587
Otros Autores: Garcés, María Antonia, Wilson, Diana de Armas, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2011.
Colección:History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds.
Temas:
Sosa, Antonio de, > -1587.
RELIGION / Islam / History
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Travel.
Gesellschaft.
Algiers (Algeria) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Algiers (Algeria) > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800.
Algiers (Algeria) > Social conditions > Early works to 1800.
Algeria > Algiers.
Algier.
Early works.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Founding of Algiers
  • Why the city is called Algiers
  • Algiers as a Muslim kingdom
  • How Algiers came under the Turks
  • Ramparts of Algiers
  • Gates of Algiers
  • Fortifications of Algiers
  • Moat of Algiers
  • Castles and forts outside Algiers
  • Houses and streets of Algiers
  • Inhabitants and neighbors of Algiers
  • Turks
  • Renegades
  • Ka'ids
  • Sipahi
  • Janissaries
  • Agha of the Janissaries
  • Ranks of the Janissaries
  • Customs of the Janissaries at war
  • Customs of the Janissaries in peacetime
  • Customs of the Algerian Corsairs
  • Catalogue of Corsairs
  • Corsairs with frigates
  • Algerian merchants
  • Algerian laborers and artisans
  • Algerian fashions
  • Marabouts of Algiers
  • Jews of Algiers
  • Languages and currencies
  • Marriage ceremonies
  • Childbirth and child rearing
  • Algerian women's fashions
  • Women's pastimes, home decorating, and cooking
  • Islamic feast days and festivals in Algiers
  • Miscellany of Muslim customs in Algiers
  • Algerian vices
  • Algerian virtues
  • Death and burial in Algiers
  • Algerian buildings and fountains
  • Natural beauty of Algiers
  • Government of Algiers.

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