Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… and translators. Many of them wrote grammars and dictionaries also with the aim of making it possible for Arabic to express new western concepts and ideas. 7 . al-Tahtāwī, for all the new words recorded in his book, reports in the footnote … a revolutionary position for those times: the access to education for women. His views on female emancipation were expressed in the book al-Murshid al-amīn li ’l-banāt wa ’l-banīn . 15 On that very year he inaugurated the first school for … Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). 10 . Today it has become the Language Faculty (Kulliyat al-Alsun) of the Egyptian University of ‘Ayn …
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