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OTHER ROUTES 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing Edited by Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin D. Edwards, and Hanna Ziadeh Foreword by Amitav Ghosh KIEFER LIBRARY, AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE Wet ah 1] U 1908 0154631 7 OTHER ROUTES Jerry A. Kiefer Library Aims Community College “For far too long we have been trained to see the world through the eyes of a handful of Western travellers. Other Routes is a first step in establishing a new perspective, demonstrating, as it does, that the history of Eastern culture has also been marked by the intellectual curiosity and passion for discovery which characterises the literature of travel. This is a long overdue anthology that will be of interest to students of history, postcolonialism and literature, as well as readers of travel writing and any Asian or African who wants to know his or her own history as it has seldom been written.” Mike Phillips, novelist, critic, author of Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain “Other Routes opens the reader to a world of alternative tradi- tions to European travel writing and the pieces it contains offer alternatives to the European traveller’s gaze. The editors of this imaginative and broad anthology expand the concept of ‘travel writing’ to include journeys such as spiritual journeys that are written about in poetry; extracts include the personal, ethnog- raphy, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, poli- tics, history, religion, diplomacy, politics, pilgrimage and culture(s) in general.” Garry Marvin, editor, JourneysT:he International Journal of Tiavel and Travel Writing OTHER ROUTES 1500 YEARS OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN TRAVEL WRITING Edited by i Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, , Justin D. Edwards, and Hanna Ziadeh Foreword by Amitav Ghosh Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis Jerry A. Kiefer: Library © Aims Community College 0 X) $7 5, Te Way, OP ‘v This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail [email protected] © 2005 Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin D. Edwards, and Hanna Ziadeh All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication is acid-free. Manufactured in India Cover design: Devdan Sen Photographs: Devdan Sen Cataloging information is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-253-34693-2 (cl.) ISBN 0-253-21821-7 (pbk.) Zoe SOON OO NOS. On S06 Os Jerry A. Kiefer Library Aims Community College CONTENTS Copyright Acknowledgements * vii . Foreword by Amitav Ghosh *¢ ix African and Asian Travel Texts in the Light of Europe: an Introduction by Tabish Khair + 1 Note on the Process of Editing -* 28 PILGRIMAGES Three Chinese Scholars go “West” to India (fifth-seventh century) ° 32 The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838) ° 42 The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (c.990) * 47 The Haj and Other Journeys of ibn Jubayr (b. 1145) ¢ 54 The Pilgrimages of Lady Nijé (b.1271) + 71 STUDIES Al-Burtini’s Defence of Hindu India (1030 AD) * 78 Pr The Horizons of al-Idrisi in the Eleventh Century ¢ 85 Two Chinese Accounts of the Early Mongols (1221 and 1237) « 102 A Chinese Account of the Lost City of Angkor (1297) * 112 Navigating with ibn Majid (floreat 1460) ° 119 Piri Reis: The Voyages of a “Corsair, (c. 1526), 92 127 The Ambivalence of Leo Africanus (1526) ¢ 131 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, DIARIES & MEMOIRS The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince-Polymath (b. 1273) ° 146 The Accidental Travels of a Korean Official (1488) ¢ 155 The Travel Memoirs of Babur (b. 1482) ¢ 162 The European Diaries of Uruch Beg (b. 1560) * 173 The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1623) © 184 Equiano’s Voyage to Slavery and Freedom (1789) ¢ 191 Dean Mahomed Writes from the Centre (c.1793) * 201 African Muslim Slave Narratives of the Nineteenth Century ° 214 The Diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836) ° 237 The Shah of Iran in European Corridors (1873) * 245 An African-Arab Princess in Europe (1881) ° 261 CONTENTS TRAVEL ACCOUNTS A Merchant of Baghdad Reports on a Viking Funeral (AD 922) ¢ 274 Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller (c.1290) + 281 Ibn Battuta, World Traveller (b. 1304) © 289 An Arab Cleric in South America (1668-83) © 299 The Poetry of Basho’s Road (1689) * 306 Mirza I’tesamuddin’s Wonders of Vilayet (1765) *° 316 An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe (1803) * 327 Al-Amraoui: Moroccan Ambassador to Europe (1860) * 348 Blyden:A Pan-Africanist’s Voyage to Palestine (1873) ° 356 Malabari: AL ove-Hate Affair with the British (1890) *° 366 Notes ° 383 Select Bibliography ° 403 Index e 417 COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors and Signal Books (UK) would like to express their appreciation to the following authors and” publishers for their generous permussion to reprint copyright material. Matsao Basho (Nobuyuki Yuasa, trans.), Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (London: Penguin, 1967) Li Chi, The Travel Diaries of Hsti Hsai-K’o (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1974) P.M. Holt, The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag Gmbh, 1983) Nabil Matar, In the Lands of The Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century (London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Books, Inc, 2003) 5 John Meskill, Ch’oe Pu’s Diary: A Record of Drifting across the Sea (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1965). Copyright held and granted by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc., Ann Arbor, USA. Ivan Morris, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967) Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin’s Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1955) G. R. Tibbetts, Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Coming of the Portuguese (London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1971) Vif As specified in the concerned sections, some entries to Other Routes were requested from and have been contributed by: Dr Lene Sgnderby Bech, East Asian Department, Institute of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Professor Kaiser Haq, Professor of English, Dhaka University, Bangladesh Dr Pekka Masonen, Senior Assistant Professor in General History in the Department of History at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Nabil Matar, Professor of English and department head of Humanities and Communication at the Florida Institute of Technology, USA. Dr Prem Poddar, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Professor Sadik Rddad, Assistant Professor of Travel literature at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Letters, Dhar Mehraz, Fez, Morocco.
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