Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612)

by Maria Antonia Garcés, Diana de Armas Wilson, Antonio de Sosa

An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa'sTopography of Algiers (1612) makes available in translation a riveting sixteenth-century chronicle of European and North African cultural contacts that is virtually unknown to English-speaking readers. The Topography was written by a Portuguese cleric, Doctor Antonio de Sosa, who was captured by Algerian corsairs in 1577 and held as a Barbary slave for over four years while awaiting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268029784
• ISBN13: 9780268029784
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"