A border crossing Ottoman Christian at the beginning of the 18th Century: Hannā Dyāb of Aleppo and his account of his travel to Paris
The source of this paper is the travelogue of a Maronite Christian from Aleppo, called Hannā Dyāb. He travelled with the French traveler Paul Lucas, who hired him during his passage through Syria in 1707, and brought him to Paris, without never mention him in the published account of his journey. Ha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
[2018]
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2018, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 548-564 |
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Diyāb, Ḥannā 1689-XXXX
/ Ottoman Empire
/ Christian
/ Journey
/ Paris
/ History 1763-1764
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B Christianity B Manuscripts B Christians B interconnessioni mediterranee B Travelogues B Historians B Cristiani maroniti B Mediterranean connectedness B Aleppo B Parigi B Maronite Christians B Culture B Paris |
| Summary: | The source of this paper is the travelogue of a Maronite Christian from Aleppo, called Hannā Dyāb. He travelled with the French traveler Paul Lucas, who hired him during his passage through Syria in 1707, and brought him to Paris, without never mention him in the published account of his journey. Hannā made this journey when he was about twenty, but he wrote his account a long time later, beginning to compose it 1763, and achieving his manuscript only March 3, 1764. Today the unique exemplar of this manuscript is conserved at the Biblioteca Vaticana. This travelogue reveals how his author's perception of differences and borders do not fit with the common idea about. Today the categories "West and East" or "Christianity and Islam" are challenged by the more recent researches on "diversity" and "connectivity" in the Mediterranean in the early Modern period. Most of the historians advocate a microstoria approach of early globalization, consisting in following an individual through the different stages of his biography, in order to catch not only his own connectedness to different milieu crossing several borders, but the exemplarity of his path for a more general intelligibility of the connections between different worlds supposed to be culturally remote. Hannā belongs to this cast of go-betweeners who in the last years have been brought to light. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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