"Voyages in" : an introduction -- Being and not being a "mere" book : history, memory, and self-understanding -- The empire writes back : from Bernard Lewis to Martin Kramer -- Scholars of religion and the return of the repressed : William D. Hart and Carl Olson -- Emergent conversations : working with and through Said's "religious" questions -- Theoretical travelogues : a slight return from Foucault back to Fanon and Sartre -- "Convergences" : "the other Arab Muslims" and "the other America" -- "The essay as form" of resistance : on the essayistic spirit in Said and Adorno -- "Out of place" : a conclusion -- In lieu of a postface : an appreciation of Edward W. Said / Vivek H. Dehejia.