Matar, in the introduction, also continues an argument that he has carried on for several decades with various scholars, notably Edward Said and Bernard Lewis. Al-Miknasl, well known in early modern Ottoman and Islamic studies, was a later writer who described journeys from 1779 to 1788 in Spain, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Istanbul, and his Hajj to Mecca in three separate journeys, all as diplomatic travels on behalf of the Sultan of Morocco who sought to ransom slaves from Christian and, in the case of Istanbul, Islamic rulers. With An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World, Matar continues his work of translation begun with In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century (2003), a collection of four authors who visited Holland, France, Spain and even South America between 16. Through a long series of studies of primarily English and Islamic texts and topics, and translations of Arabic works reflecting contact between the two cultures, he has opened for historians and literary historians an often-unknown world.
Nabil Matar, Presidential Professor of English and member of the History and Religion departments at the University of Minnesota, is one of the leading scholars on the relationship between Europe and the Islamic world in the early modern period. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Original and Progress of Mahometanism. Culture and Civilization in the Middle East. Translated and introduced by Nabil Matar. An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World: The Travels of Muhammad ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi.
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