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ajiss-2716	Obeidat, Marwan M.	Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive and the Barbary Orient: An Example of America’s Early Literary Awareness of the Muslim Near East	1988.0	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2937	129	57	*For further information on American travelers to the region see my article Lured by the Exotic Levant: the Muslim East to the American Traveler of the Nineteenth Century, which was included in the second issue of the Islamic Quarterly of 1987. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, literary magazines provided American readers with such exotic Oriental material as Bathmendi(l787), Myma and Ossmin(1788), and Omar and Fatima (1807).6 Benjamin Franklin wrote such shorter works as A Narrative of the Late Massacres ... (1764), An Arabian Tale (1779), and On the Slave Trade (1790).	cache/ajiss-2716.pdf	txt/ajiss-2716.txt