I'm interested in the meeting of different cultures. Any great points in history you'd recommend for reading, any books?
Have read many books on crusades so anything else would be appreciated
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people don't read here. especially these days, the board's gone horrendously downhill.
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Dembei of Russia comes to mind as a singular event/person
Not about points in history, rather a collection of individual stories about culture shock. I'll monitor this thread because i'm a sucker for this.
>An Imam In Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit To France 1826-1831
>In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century
>Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845-1846. The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar