Translation, Travel, and the Other : the Fascination with Greek and Oriental Cultures -- European Barbarity and Civilization in some Medieval Arabic Geographical Sources : Al-Masudi and al-Bakri as Two Case Studies -- Writing the North : Europe and Europeans in Medieval Arabic Travel Literature -- Poetry, Frontiers, and Alterity : Views and Perceptions of al-Rum (Byzantines) and al-Ifranja (Crusaders) -- Appendix of Translated Poetry