Habemus Africas
Islã, Renascimento e África em João Leão Africano (século XVI)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5852243 |
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| Authors | Murilo Sebe Bon Meihy (Centro Universitário Internacional, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/t.8.2013.tde-19082013-162547 |
| OpenAlex | W1545182689 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The most representative work of the sixteenth century traveler Leo Africanus, entitled Della descrittione dell'Africa et delle cose che notabli ivi sono, suggests the existence of two intertwined rationalities: the Arab-Islamic and the European-Latin.This research seeks to identify these two layers of rationality in the work of Leo Africanus, showing that the sixteenth century produced plural knowledge between these two cultural sources, intensely connected during the Renaissance.Either from the perspective of conflict, of the cultural interaction or of the commercial negotiation between Christian and Muslim peoples, North Africa and the Mediterranean developed in the sixteenth century as symbiotic spaces.These circumstantial elements, combined with the personal path of Leo Africanus, and his relationship with Pope Leo X, shaped his view of Africa through a fluid and interstitial conception of the continent.Leo Africanus' idea about the modern world is strengthened by a thought pattern raised and defined by concepts such as cunning, cultural translation, Fortuna, shame, uncertainty, and civilization fluidity
Alterity · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Civilization · Geography · Humanities · Islam · Plural · Theology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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