Nyelvészeti szempontok az Idegen megjelenítéséhez a középkori arab utazók feljegyzéseiben
The Representation of the Stranger in Mediaeval Arab Travellers' Notes: Linguistic Remarks

Summary/Abstract: Linguistic remarks are quite frequent and significant in the characterization of the Stranger in mediaeval Arabic travel notes. Our sources measure the Stranger’s alterity with respect to their knowledge of Arabic, the medium through which the domain of alterity is accessed. This alterity is constantly associated with a reprehensible social behaviour and with the strangers’ poor assimilation of Islam and its rituals. Thus, the representatives of the cultural centre (markaziyya) mercilessly note the strangers’ linguistic, religious, and behavioural “deficiencies”. A good knowledge of Arabic has to be associated with a correct assimilation of the Islamic religion, the two elements jointly representing the essential criteria for inclusion in this most prestigious culture.

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