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A native of Baghdad, Abd-Allatif (1162 1231) was a versatile
scholar and scientist of vast erudition. This prolific author
travelled widely throughout the Muslim world and wrote an account
of Egypt at a time when the country was rarely visited by
Europeans. The book covers matters ranging from natural history and
medicine to culture and domestic economy. It also includes a vivid
description of the terrible famine that Abd-Allatif witnessed in
1200 and 1201 when the Nile failed to flood. The text was widely
known in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century thanks to
Latin and German translations. Orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre
de Sacy (1758 1838) translated and edited this version, first
published in French in 1810. Complementing this invaluable account
are excerpts from several other Arab writers, a detailed biography
of Abd-Allatif, and a general overview of the provinces and
villages of Egypt in the fourteenth century.
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758 1838), the most distinguished
French orientalist of his time, is considered the father of Arab
scholarship in Europe. He had a lifelong interest in a little-known
religious community, the Druze, which emerged in the eleventh
century as an Ismaili schismatic movement. De Sacy's monumental
study was begun in the 1790s, when he translated some of the Druze
scriptures from Arabic to French. Such was his commitment to
learning more about the Druze that he waited forty years before
publishing this two-volume work in 1838, as he hoped to uncover
further source material. It offers pioneering insight into the
religious system founded by Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad during the
reign of the caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Volume 1 looks at the
early history and doctrines of the Ismaili movement before
expanding on the reign of al-Hakim (996 1021).
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758 1838), the most distinguished
French orientalist of his time, is considered the father of Arab
scholarship in Europe. He had a lifelong interest in a little-known
religious community, the Druze, which emerged in the eleventh
century as an Ismaili schismatic movement. De Sacy's monumental
study was begun in the 1790s, when he translated some of the Druze
scriptures from Arabic to French. Such was his commitment to
learning more about the Druze that he waited forty years before
publishing this two-volume work in 1838, as he hoped to uncover
further source material. It offers pioneering insight into the
religious system founded by Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad during the
reign of the caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Volume 2 thoroughly
examines the Druze hierarchical structures and doctrines, from
moral duties to civil law.
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