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Introduction by the editor; Ahmad Abd al Majid Haridi, in 1981 with a bibliographic study about the travel and detailed index. Facsimile of the copy scribed by the grand son of the author in 1231 AH. ; Abd al Jalil b. Mustafa b. Ismail. Together with appendex by Nawal Ahmad Shahin.

361, 3, 12, 6 p. One of the most rare travel books printed in al Jawa'ib printing house by the author Ahmad Faris Efendi al Shidyaq. In fine modern dark green full leather binding of Islamic Mamluk style decoration. The author who was a well-known sholar in Arabic literature and later embraced Islam, came from a famous Maronite family in Mont Libanon. He moved to Istanbul during the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz era where he established al Jawa'ib printing house to print the first political Arabic newspaper in the same name of the printing house. Approx. 1040 issues were published of al Jawa'ib newspaper, then a collection of important news and articles from the newspaper were published in al Jawa'ib also by Ahmad Faris's nefew, Selim Faris in 7 volumes. (for a copy of Muntakhabat al Jawa'ib see : inventory no. 00060).

VERY RARE, TOW PARTS IN ONE VOLUME, ARABIC TEXT 272, 142 P ON FINE BUFFED WITE PAPER, WITH MANY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE FIRST PART IS ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S TRAVEL IN THE BRITISH INDIA AND KASHMEER IN 1914, AND THE SECOND IS ABOUT HIS TRAVEL IN THE WESTERN TIBET AND KASHMEER IN 1915. YUSUF KAMAL WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY IN EGYPT AND A WELL KNOWN ART AND MAPS COLLECTOR, ALSO WAS AN AUTHOR WHO WROTE AND TRANSLATED SOME GEOGRAPHICAL WARKS. For other work by Yusuf Kemal see inventory nos. 000454 AND 000493

Rifa'a Rafi' al Tahtawi (1801-1873) was born in the village of Tahta, Sohag, the same year the French troops evacuated Egypt. He was an Azharite recommended by his teacher and mentor Hassan El-Attar to be the chaplain of a group of students Mohammed Ali was sending to Paris in 1826. Many student missions from Egypt went to Europe in the early 19th century to study arts and sciences at European universities and acquire technical skills such as printing, shipbuilding and modern military techniques. According to his memoir Rihla (Journey to Paris), Tahtawi studied ethics, social and political philosophy, and mathematics and geometry. He read works by Condillac, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Bézout among others during his séjour in France. In 1831, Tahtawi returned home to be part of the statewide effort to "modernize" the Egyptian infrastructure and education. He undertook a career in writing and translation, and founded the School of Languages (also knowns as School of Translators) in 1835,… Read More