Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… society along Western lines. 2 . When the shaykh Hasan al-‘Attār (1766-1835), an educated and far-sighted cleric, presented this manuscript written in Arabic to Muhammad ‘Alī, he appreciated it to the point of ordering that it be … his young age, he immediately grasped the didactic value of these performances which he called al‘āb (games) that represented reality through jest and from which people learned amazing lessons ʻso that the French say that it [the … (School for Translators) and later Madrasat al-Alsun (School of Languages). 10 Here a good number of works representative of European thought were translated, either by him or under his supervision, 11 as he had learned French …
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