TY  - CHAP
AU  - Ezzahidi, Malika
AB  - This chapter examines the writings of the renowned late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî, the first known traveller from his country to leave an account of European quarantine as experienced during his two diplomatic missions in Spain’s Ceuta (1779) and Malta’s Valletta (1782). It shows that quarantine, on the one hand, acted as a marker of otherness by which Ibn Othman was identified as a Muslim, though this was not a uniform process, owing to the fact that significant differences existed in the degree of alterity experienced in Spain and Malta, and indeed other parts of the Mediterranean. The subjective opinion on quarantine, on the other hand, was also one of the means through which Ibn Uthmân situated himself within Makhzen (Moroccan government) elites at a time when a division between those who declared themselves in favour of European-style modernisation and those who advocated a rejection of European novelties was already visible.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 645502
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030821253
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30519
KW  - ibn uthmân al-meknassî
KW  - spain
KW  - diplomatic missions
KW  - morocco
KW  - 18th century
KW  - quarantine
KW  - malta
KW  - muslim identity
KW  - ibn uthmân al-meknassî
KW  - spain
KW  - diplomatic missions
KW  - morocco
KW  - 18th century
KW  - quarantine
KW  - malta
KW  - muslim identity
KW  - Ceuta
KW  - Epidemic
KW  - Mediterranean Sea
KW  - Tangier
KW  - Travel literature
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30519/1/645502.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30519/1/645502.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30519/1/645502.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36954
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2018
TI  - Chapter 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassînull
ER  - 
