Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… al-Sultānī (Collège Royal de France) and Maktab al-Lughāt al-Mashraqiyya al-Musta‘mala (Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes). On his return home, he strove to introduce some of these aspects of French culture and sociability … the guidance of Edmé-Fran ç ois Jomard (1777-1862), a veteran of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, and the famous orientalist Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838). al-Tahtāwī was a strong promoter of the translation movement, which was taking … of Europe. A Study in Cultural Encounters ( London: Saqi Books, 2011 ). Almarhaby, Ibrahem, ‘Shifting Perceptions of Orient and Occident in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Travel Writing’, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (vol. 21, no. 4, …
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