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An Arab's Journey To Colonial Spanish America - The Travels of Elias al-Musili in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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An Arab's Journey To Colonial Spanish America - The Travels of Elias al-Musili in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Middle East Literature In Translation
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Reverend Antun Rabbat, a respected Jesuit scholar of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discovered these
extraordinary writings in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria.
Rabbat immediately transcribed into Arabic those portions relating
to the remarkable experiences of Reverend Elias-al-Musili, a priest
of the Chaldean Church, the first person ever to come to the
Americas from Baghdad. Surrounded by a world seemingly filled with
exotic miracles, al-Musili shares his perceptions of native
peoples, their customs, beliefs, and treatment by Spanish
conquistadors. Because of the uniqueness and significance of his
journey, al-Musili was supported by the pope himself and authorized
by the queen regent of Spain. He provides insightful descriptions
of high-level officials and clerics in the New World. And he tells
of uncommon visits to royalty in Catholic Europe prior to embarking
on a voyage that would turn into a twelve-year adventure
(1668-1680). Also featured are rare notes culled from a manuscript
in a monastery of the Chaldean Christian rite in Baghdad.
Aesthetically appealing and historically important, this unique
account remains an invaluable document for scholars of early modern
history and of the church in Latin America.
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