Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… to Europe. al-Tahtāwī accompanied, as spiritual guide, a group of forty-four students sent to Paris to learn the French language, military techniques and other relevant subjects. He remained in Paris for five years (1826-1831), documenting … vocabulary in their Arabicized version. 7 Actually, as a result of the West’s impact on Arabic culture, the interest in language matters became of central importance for Arab intellectuals and translators. Many of them wrote grammars and … majma‘ (société), majlis (conseil), institūt (institut), kūlayj (collèges), highlighting how, in some of them, foreign languages and literatures were studied, including Arabic, as in the Kūlayj al-Faransāwiyya al-Sultānī (Collège Royal de …
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