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  "en": "Jeremy Prestholdt, 'From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism' (2014)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "فصل أكاديمي لجيريمي بريستهولت في كتاب «مسلمون عالميون في عصر البخار والطباعة» (مطبعة جامعة كاليفورنيا، 2014) عن سلمة بنت سعيد / إميلي رويته (1844-1924)، أول زنجبارية بل أول امرأة عربية تنشر مذكراتها؛ يذكر أنها هربت مع تاجر ألماني واعتنقت المسيحية، وأن مذكراتها (1886) تروي حياتها في زنجبار ورحلتها بين عالمين.",
  "en": "Jeremy Prestholdt's academic chapter in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print (University of California Press, 2014) on Sayyida Salme bint Said / Emily Ruete (1844–1924), the first Zanzibari and first Arab woman to publish her memoirs; it states that she eloped with a German merchant and converted to Christianity, and that her Memoirs (1886) narrate her Zanzibar upbringing and her life between two worlds."
 },
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  "kind": "secondary",
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  "title": "From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Prestholdt",
    "given": "Jeremy"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2014
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "University of California Press, in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print (eds. James L. Gelvin and Nile Green)",
  "URL": "https://www.academia.edu/18481427/From_Zanzibar_to_Beirut_Sayyida_Salme_bint_Said_and_the_Tensions_of_Cosmopolitanism",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Peer-reviewed academic chapter devoted to Ruete. Used here as a second independent attestation, alongside van Donzel's edition, of her conversion to Christianity, and for the standing of her Memoirs as the first published autobiography of an Arab woman. Read on 25 October 2026 via the Academia.edu copy.",
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   "review": "published",
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  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}