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Although there is a plethora of Westerners' accounts of their travels in the Arab world, it is often forgotten that there exists a substantial body of accounts of journeys to the West by Arab travellers. Nazik Yared's study, while acknowledging the importance of major figures in classical Arabic travel literature such as al-Mas'udi (d. 957), Ibn Jubair (d. 1217) and Ibn Battuta (d. 1377), focuses on Arab travellers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this period, travel was perhaps the most important means of introducing an Arab to aspects of European civilization. This contact and interaction with the West often proved disturbing and even shocking: it provoked a conflict on the political, economic, intellectual and cultural levels that remains a fundamental problem for Arab identity to this day. On the one hand, the Arabs admired the West's progress and asked to what extent their own backwardness and stagnation could be blamed on their traditional outlook. On the other, they felt threatened and wanted to preserve their identity in the face of the onslaught of new values. This dilemma is mirrored in the works of the writers analysed in Yared's book. They also reveal the way in which the dilemma changed over time: from the Egyptian al-Tahtawi's impressions of Paris to al-Rihani and Husayn's later views of the West. Since these changes also reflected the political scene very clearly, the book is divided into three parts: the first (1826-1882) begins with al-Tahtawi's trip to France in 1826 and ends with the colonization of Tunisia by the French in 1882 and of Egypt by the British in the same year; the second (1882-1918) goes from the Western occupation until the end of the First World War; and the third (1919-1938) covers the period between the two World Wars. Of the many Arab travellers who left their accounts, the author has selected those who either represented a train of thought shared by the intelligentsia of the time or wh.

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