Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims,
Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach
allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities
used travel writing in the same way, to shape the perceptions of
their readers by asserting the author's authority. The central
paradox of religious travel writing is that the travel writer reads
about a place, usually in a sacred text, decide to supplement the
reading with the empirical experience of visiting and describing
the place, and the creates his own descriptive text. But in writing
this new book, and in letting his readers know his authorial
authority, the travel writer himself is daring the reader to
challenge the new text. Is a book ever enough? For societies that
value their sacred texts, this question is a challenge. But it is a
challenge posed by writers who live firmly in the religious
tradition.
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