TWO PRINTED BOOKS ON 'UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY', VOLUMES I AND III...
TWO PRINTED BOOKS ON 'UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY', VOLUMES I AND III BY CONRAD MATLE-BRUN (D. 1826)
TRANSLATED TO ARABIC BY RIFA'A RAFI' AL-TAHTAWI
Printed by Bulaq Press, Egypt, 1254 AH (1838-39 AD)
The work Al-Jughrafiyya Al-Umumiyya, commissioned during the reign of Mohammad Ali Pasha is a first edition Arabic translation by Egyptian writer and philospher Rifa'a Rafi' Al-Tahtawi (1801-1873) of Précis de la géographie universelle by the renowned Franco-Danish geographer Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826), it was printed by Bulaq Press, one of the main agencies, which Muhammad Ali Pasha modernised Egypt with; comprising two volumes, volume I and volume III, the only two volumes that reached print; the text served as a foundational textbook for his newly established secular schools and military academies, it played an instrumental role in bridging Western scientific geography with the Arabic literary world during the 19th-century intellectual renaissance known as the Nahda (the Arab Renaissance); sources on the Egyptian translation movement record that geography was among Al-Tahtawi's principal intellectual interests after his return from France, modern geography was urgently required for Egypt's military and educational institutions, and Al-Tahtawi was deeply involved in introducing the discipline into Arabic teaching.
Volume I: 205 pages; Volume III: 268 pages, approximately 34cm x 23cm (2)
TWO PRINTED BOOKS ON 'UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY', VOLUMES I AND III BY CONRAD MATLE-BRUN (D. 1826)
TRANSLATED TO ARABIC BY RIFA'A RAFI' AL-TAHTAWI
Printed by Bulaq Press, Egypt, 1254 AH (1838-39 AD)
The work Al-Jughrafiyya Al-Umumiyya, commissioned during the reign of Mohammad Ali Pasha is a first edition Arabic translation by Egyptian writer and philospher Rifa'a Rafi' Al-Tahtawi (1801-1873) of Précis de la géographie universelle by the renowned Franco-Danish geographer Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826), it was printed by Bulaq Press, one of the main agencies, which Muhammad Ali Pasha modernised Egypt with; comprising two volumes, volume I and volume III, the only two volumes that reached print; the text served as a foundational textbook for his newly established secular schools and military academies, it played an instrumental role in bridging Western scientific geography with the Arabic literary world during the 19th-century intellectual renaissance known as the Nahda (the Arab Renaissance); sources on the Egyptian translation movement record that geography was among Al-Tahtawi's principal intellectual interests after his return from France, modern geography was urgently required for Egypt's military and educational institutions, and Al-Tahtawi was deeply involved in introducing the discipline into Arabic teaching.
Volume I: 205 pages; Volume III: 268 pages, approximately 34cm x 23cm (2)
