This volume is the result of a workshop entitled “Travel writing between fact and fiction – genre, functions and boundaries” organized at Bogaziçi University Istanbul in December 2010 within the frame of the research project “Europe from the outside – formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe from inside Europe”, based at the University of Bonn.
Self and Other, Here and There. Travel writing and the construction of identity and placePages 11 - 28 İrvin Cemil Schick Download chapter (PDF)
The image of Europe and Europeans in Ottoman-Turkish travel writingPages 29 - 52 Bâki Asiltürk Download chapter (PDF)
Ottoman travel accounts to Europe. An overview of their historical development and a commented researchers’ listPages 53 - 74 Caspar Hillebrand Download chapter (PDF)
Travelling within the Empire. Perceptions of the East in the historical narratives on Cairo by Mustafa Âli and Evliya ÇelebiPages 75 - 100 Nazlı İpek Hüner Download chapter (PDF)
Religion as a determining factor of the Self and the Other in travel literature. How Islamic is the Muslim worldview? Evliya Çelebi and his successors reconsideredPages 101 - 130 Bekim Agai Download chapter (PDF)
Iranian women on the road. The case of Ṣadīqe Doulatābādī in Europe, 1923–27Pages 131 - 156 Jasmin Khosravie Download chapter (PDF)
Taḥṣīl rehberi as a source for both the traveller and the historianPages 157 - 178 Leyla v. Mende Download chapter (PDF)
Rashīd Riḍā in Europe. A monomythic reading of his travel narrativePages 179 - 202 Mehdi Sajid Download chapter (PDF)
Imaginary travel(s) as a discursive strategy. The case of Ahmet Mithat and Ottoman constructions of EuropePages 203 - 226 Olcay Akyıldız Download chapter (PDF)
Appendix. A researchers’ list of Ottoman travel accounts to Europe. Bibliographical partPages 227 - 262 Caspar Hillebrand Download chapter (PDF)
