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Turkey, Egypt, and Syria - A Travelogue (Hardcover)
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Turkey, Egypt, and Syria - A Travelogue (Hardcover)
Series: Middle East Literature In Translation
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Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the
experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli-
Nu'ma-ni- (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and
Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan
Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Nu'ma-ni- took a six-month
leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of
rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series
of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way,
he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and
newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a
transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Nu'ma-ni-
records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare glimpses of
intellectual networks, religious festivals, visual and literary
culture, and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. First
published in 1894, the travelogue has since become a classic of
Urdu travel writing and has been immensely influential in the
intellectual and politicalhistory of South Asia. This translation,
the first into English, includes contemporary reviews of the
travelogue, letters written by the author during his travels, and
serialized newspaper reports about the journey, and is deeply
enriched for readers and students by the translator's copious
multilingual glosses and annotations. Nu'ma-ni- 's chronicle offers
unique insight into broader processes of historical change in this
part of the world while also providing a rare glimpse of
intellectual engagement and exchange across the porous borders of
empire.
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