Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.
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