Two journeys to seventeenth-century Palestine

This article describes two seventeenth-century accounts of voyages to Pales tine-one by an Arab, the Moroccan jurist Salim Abdallah al-Ayyashi, in 1663 ; and the other by an Englishman, one "T. B.," in 1669. The two texts, thou gh sharing a focus on holy sites inspired by their scriptures, reveal not o nly sharply differing views of Palestine but also widely divergent worldvie ws and approaches to history and the meaning of travel.