Author: Amin Maalouf" Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488.
Author: P. Ingham... Leo Africanus's “A most exact description of the citie of Fez” (2:419): particularly his description of “two most stately colleges” (2:423) and “[o]f the African poets” (2:455), rearranging the latter section to (mis)identify Leo ...
Author: Natalie Zemon DavisDie große Historikerin Natalie Zemon Davis erzählt die exemplarische Lebensgeschichte des Leo Africanus wie einen Abenteuerroman:als Muslim geboren, von Katholiken vertrieben und vom Papst getauft...
Author: David Thomas... Leo Africanus and the limits of translation' I. Marchesani, H. Triki and A. Aouchar, Fez dans la cosmographie d'Al-Hassan ben Mohammed al-Wazzan az-Zayyati, dit Léon l'Africain, Mohammedia, Morocco, 2004 B. Andrea, 'The ghost of Leo ...
Author: Cornel Zwierlein... Leo Africanus supplied. Despite being the standard point of reference for African history in general as well as for North African history in particular, Leo Africanus did not, ironically, provide any“History”in its narrower sense at all ...
Author: Eva Johanna Holmberg... Leo Africanus's (1485–1554?)45 Geographicall Historie ofAfrica, adding several passages penned by himself to Leo's book. In the Geographicall Historie Jews are said to inhabit distant corners of Africa: Ethiopia, 'Tombuto' [Timbuktu] ...
Author: Greg Wiggan... Leo Africanus). In 1518, Spanish soldiers captured al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, a Muslim scholar of ... Leo X as a gift. Pope Leo X had alWassan al-Fasi baptized into Roman Catholicism and changed his name to Leo Africanus ...
Author: Christian Mauder... Leo Africanus left theItalian PeninsulafortheMaghrib,whereheisreportedtohaveliveduntilatleast938– 9/1532.985 The only surviving manuscript of Leo Africanus' La descrittione dell'Africa covers 900 pages; after its publication in 957/1550 ...
Author: Gomes Eannes de Zurara... Leo Africanus , Hakluyt Soc . ed . , 117 , 798 , 800 , 816 , 829 ; Pacheco Pereira , Esmeraldo , 43 ; Dr. Barth , Reise , iv , 616 . 184 ( p . 233 ) . Palms .— [ See Denham and Clapperton . ] — S . 185 ... Leo Africanus (Hakluyt Soc. ed.),
Author: Claudia Esposito... Leo Africanus's narrative. Presumed by many scholars to have been lost in a fire in 1557 or thrown into the Mediterranean Sea by pirates, the original manuscript appeared in 1931 at the Vatican library in Rome.6 The 1550 Ramusio edition ...
