Abstract
This article attempts to read al-Ghazāl’s travel account Natījat al Ijtihād fi al-Mohādana wa al-Jihād as a valuable archival material and an eighteenth-century subaltern narrative that offers the re-interrogation of the discourse of the Self and the Other from the perspective of the Moroccan traveler. Natījat al Ijtihād is a travel account that gives further historical evidence about one of the less discussed experiences in literature and annals of history, the abduction of Muslims in foreign lands. Such an interdependent overlap between these thematic concerns and the historical context that fuels up al-Ghazzal’s travel-inspired text would give readers the chance to explore the dynamics of cultural encounters between Morocco and Spain during the reign of Sultan Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah.
Recommended Citation
Simour, Lhoussain
(2019)
"The Moorish Ambassador’s Journey to Spain: cultural encounters in Ahmed ben Mehdi al-Ghazāl’s natījat al ijtihād fi al-mohādana wa al-jihād (1766),"
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
https://doi.org/10.66499/6771-2605.1159
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https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol2/iss1/12