῾Abd al-Ganī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143 h. / 1731 ad): the “riḥla” beyond the patterns of the genre.
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https://doi.org/10.12795/PH.2017.i31.12Keywords:
Nābulusī, Sufism, Travel Literature, Riḥla, JerusalemAbstract
The sufi polygraph author al-Nābulusī made several journeys through some of the islamic Eastern countries. The accounts of his travels show a different perspective within the tradition of Arab travel literature. Through the comparison with the descriptions of some places in Syria and Jerusalem made by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa -and, to a lesser extent, other authors-, we will emphasize the contrasting quality of the features which characterize al-Nābulusī´s accounts in order to elucidate whether the sufi riḥla can be considered a subgenre of Arab travel literature.
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