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Frontmatter --CONTENTS --LIST OF FIGURES --LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS --ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --INTRODUCTION: TRAVEL AS EPISTEME--AN INTRODUCTORY JOURNEY /Piera, Montserrat --PART I. TRANSFORMING THE RIHLA TRADITION: THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE IN JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN TRAVELLERS --Chapter 1. From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani's Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage /Gould, Rebecca --Chapter 2. Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts /Sorrentino, Janet --Chapter 3. Vulnerable Medieval Iberian Travellers: Benjamin of Tudela's Sefer ha- Massa'ot, Pero Tafur's Andanças e viajes, and Ahmad al- Wazzan's Libro de la Cosmogrophia et Geographia de Africa /Piera, Montserrat --PART II. IMAGINING THE EAST: EGYPT, PERSIA, AND ISTANBUL IN MY MIND --Chapter 4. "Tierras de Egipto": Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia /Desing, Matthew V. --Chapter 5. The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert's Re- vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile /Mehdizadeh, Nedda --Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi'ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts /Brancaforte, Elio --Chapter 7. Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle's Travel to Istanbul (1614-1615) /Darnault, Sezim Sezer / Ağir, Aygül --PART III. TO THE EAST AND BACK: EXCHANGING OBJECTS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS --Chapter 8. Gift- giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246- 1248 ce) /Duque, Adriano --Chapter 9. The East- West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza /Kaplan, Gregory B. --Chapter 10. Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier /Ryan, Maria Del Pilar --Chapter 11. The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618) /Dadabhoy, Ambereen --Chapter 12. Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit /Schleck, Julia --SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEX A new look at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads influenced the Western Renaissance, through analysis of travel narratives and travelogues from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries
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