Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: concepts of modernity
  • Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb
  • The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity
  • Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing
  • Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing
  • Conclusions and contemporary debates.