1st Edition
An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World The Travels of Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Miknāsī, 1779-1788
Biography
Nabil Matar is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He is author of a trilogy on early modern Britain and the Islamic World, along with translations of Arabic sources and studies on the relationship between Europe and the Arab Mediterranean between 1550 and 1798.
" The most valuable aspect of the travel narratives is his account of the Ottoman Empire. He travels through the empire as both an insider and a Muslim and as an outsider—a Moroccan Arab—giving a unique perspective of the 18th-century Ottoman state...Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries."
--R. W. Zens, Le Moyne College, CHOICE
"In these two editions Matar offers a continuation of his very creative and valuable work in developing the sources and arguments for understanding Muslim and Christian relations in the early modern period."
-- S.Varvis, Fresno Pacific University, Journal of the Conference on Faith and History
