Bücher von Hamid (Columbia University Dabashi

Moving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the adventures of more than a dozen Persian travelers in the nineteenth century re-discovers and reclaims the world as seen through their rich travelogues, removing the colonial borders within which their narratives had been placed.

Presenting criticism of contemporary politics, this title argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves.