An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century (Middle East Literature In Translation)
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| Management number | 231634914 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $9.48 | Model Number | 231634914 | ||
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In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias-al- Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. al- Mûsili, a seventeenth century Arab and priest of the Chaldean Church, traveled widely across colonial Spanish America becoming the first person to visit the Americas from Baghdad. Rabbât transcribed into Arabic and published those portions relating to al-Mûsili’s travels and Middle Eastern historian Caesar Farah is the first to make these writings available in English translation. Read more
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