Author: Shibli Numani
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu‘mani (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Nu‘mani took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way, he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Nu‘mani records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare glimpses of intellectual networks, religious festivals, visual and literary culture, and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. First published in 1894, the travelogue has since become a classic of Urdu travel writing and has been immensely influential in the intellectual and political history of South Asia. This translation, the first into English, includes contemporary reviews of the travelogue, letters written by the author during his travels, and serialized newspaper reports about the journey, and is deeply enriched for readers and students by the translator’s copious multilingual glosses and annotations. Nu‘mani's chronicle offers unique insight into broader processes of historical change in this part of the world while also providing a rare glimpse of intellectual engagement and exchange across the porous borders of empire.
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria
Author: Shibli Numani
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu‘mani (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Nu‘mani took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way, he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Nu‘mani records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare glimpses of intellectual networks, religious festivals, visual and literary culture, and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. First published in 1894, the travelogue has since become a classic of Urdu travel writing and has been immensely influential in the intellectual and political history of South Asia. This translation, the first into English, includes contemporary reviews of the travelogue, letters written by the author during his travels, and serialized newspaper reports about the journey, and is deeply enriched for readers and students by the translator’s copious multilingual glosses and annotations. Nu‘mani's chronicle offers unique insight into broader processes of historical change in this part of the world while also providing a rare glimpse of intellectual engagement and exchange across the porous borders of empire.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu‘mani (1857–1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Nu‘mani took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way, he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Nu‘mani records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare glimpses of intellectual networks, religious festivals, visual and literary culture, and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. First published in 1894, the travelogue has since become a classic of Urdu travel writing and has been immensely influential in the intellectual and political history of South Asia. This translation, the first into English, includes contemporary reviews of the travelogue, letters written by the author during his travels, and serialized newspaper reports about the journey, and is deeply enriched for readers and students by the translator’s copious multilingual glosses and annotations. Nu‘mani's chronicle offers unique insight into broader processes of historical change in this part of the world while also providing a rare glimpse of intellectual engagement and exchange across the porous borders of empire.
Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785
Author: Constantin-François Volney
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785 ...
Author: Constantin-François Volney
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Egypt and Syria
Author: Sir John William Dawson
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Travels through Syria and Egypt in 1783, 1784 and 1785 ... Translated from the French
Author: Constantin François de VOLNEY (Count.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Letters from Egypt and Syria
Author: William Arnold Bromfield
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785. ... Translated from the French, etc
Author: Constantin François de VOLNEY (Count.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Struggle of the Nations
Author: Gaston Maspero
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Travels in Egypt and Syria
Author: S. S. Hill
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517)
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004387003
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume is dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004387003
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume is dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting.