Author
Mairs; Rachel
Year
2024
Language
English
Pages
29
ISBN
978-1-80008-619-7
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
History ; European Studies ; Middle East Studies
Scholarly command of a language and the ability to function in it in day-to-day life are two very different things. An encounter between two famous scholars in Paris in the late 1820s makes this abundantly clear. The Egyptian Rifā῾a Rāfi῾ al-Ṭahṭāwī (1801–1873) was in France as imām (religious leader) to an educational mission sent by the ruler of Egypt, Muḥammad ‘Alī.¹ Al-Ṭahṭāwī, who had been educated at the ancient university of al-Azhar in Cairo and was a protégé of the renowned scholar Ḥasan al-‘Aṭṭār, had shown an aptitude for French, and combined his spiritual duties with studying alongside the...
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