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A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

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Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco - became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised. Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.

©2006 Natalie Zemon Davis, Maps Copyright © 2006 by Jeffrey L. Ward (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Biographies Europe Islam Monde Voyageurs et explorateurs Afrique Moyen Âge Renaissance Moyen-Orient Iran Maroc Empire ottoman Impérialisme Histoire ancienne Croisade

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"[A] fascinating tale of a man forced...to live between incompatible worlds. Highly recommended." (Library Journal)
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