Uitverkoop Trickster Travels. In Search of Leo Africanus. A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds. – DAVIS, NATALIE ZEMON

Al-Hasan al-Wazzan–born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez–is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished …