Travels And Explorations from Archive

VERY RARE, TOW PARTS IN ONE VOLUME, ARABIC TEXT 272, 142 P ON FINE BUFFED WITE PAPER, WITH MANY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. THE FIRST PART IS ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S TRAVEL IN THE BRITISH INDIA AND KASHMEER IN 1914, AND THE SECOND IS ABOUT HIS TRAVEL IN THE WESTERN TIBET AND KASHMEER IN 1915. YUSUF KAMAL WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE… Read more about this item

361, 3, 12, 6 p. One of the most rare travel books printed in al Jawa'ib printing house by the author Ahmad Faris Efendi al Shidyaq. In fine modern dark green full leather binding of Islamic Mamluk style decoration. The author who was a well-known sholar in Arabic literature and later embraced Islam, came from a famous Maronite family… Read more about this item

Rifa'a Rafi' al Tahtawi (1801-1873) was born in the village of Tahta, Sohag, the same year the French troops evacuated Egypt. He was an Azharite recommended by his teacher and mentor Hassan El-Attar to be the chaplain of a group of students Mohammed Ali was sending to Paris in 1826. Many student missions from Egypt went to Europe in the… Read more about this item

Introduction by the editor; Ahmad Abd al Majid Haridi, in 1981 with a bibliographic study about the travel and detailed index. Facsimile of the copy scribed by the grand son of the author in 1231 AH. ; Abd al Jalil b. Mustafa b. Ismail. Together with appendex by Nawal Ahmad Shahin.