Description
Product ID: | 9780815636540 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Middle East Literature In Translation |
Title: | Turkey, Egypt, and Syria |
Subtitle: | A Travelogue |
Authors: | Author: Shibli Numani, Gregory Maxwell Bruce |
Page Count: | 376 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Middle Eastern history, Social and cultural history, Classic travel writing, Middle Eastern history, Social & cultural history, Classic travel writing, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts. |
Imprint Name: | Syracuse University Press |
Publisher Name: | Syracuse University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-01-30 |