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    Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi (Arabic: رفاعة رافع الطهطاوي, romanized: Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ aṭ-Ṭahṭāwī; 1801–1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist...
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  • Arabe (1982). Egyptian Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801-1873) is considered one of the early adapters to Islamic Modernism...
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  • distinction blurred as the renaissance progressed. Egyptian scholar Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873) is widely seen as the pioneering figure of the Nahda....
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  • al-Zahawi, Maruf al Rusafi, Fawzi al-Ma'luf [ar], and Khalil Mutran. Rifa'a at-Tahtawi, who lived in Paris from 1826 to 1831, wrote A Paris Profile  [ar]...
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  • voit pas (What is Seen and What is Not Seen), 1850 Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (Egypt, 1801–1873) Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (also spelt Tahtawy) was an Egyptian writer, teacher...
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  • community. Its most famous resident was the reformist intellectual Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, who was born in Tahta in 1801, and who wrote and translated many...
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    Said's reign. A reverent tone was taken to the government. In 1842, Rifa'a at-Tahtawi began developing form, content, and style of Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya...
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    Egyptian renaissance intellectual was Rifa'a el-Tahtawi, who was born in the village of Tahta in upper Egypt. In 1831, Tahtawi undertook a career in journalism...
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  • Zbigniew Szafrański (Polish) Mahmoud Maher Taha (Egyptian, born 1942) Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (Egyptian, 1801–1873) Gertrud Thausing (Austrian, 1905-1997) Elizabeth...
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  • leaders of the movement include Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan, Namık Kemal, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Muhammad Abduh (former Sheikh of Al-Azhar University), Jamal ad-Din...
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    al-Rahman al-Jabarti (d. 1825) and Rifa‘a al-Tahtawi (d. 1872) represented these intellectual trends. While Rifa'a al Tahtawi exemplified the former, 'Abd al-Rahman...
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    printed in 1857 at the Bulaq Press in Cairo in a standalone volume made by Naṣr al-Hūrīnī [ar], with crucial support from Rifa'a at-Tahtawi, and as the first...
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    pilgrimage; for instance the 19th century riḥlas of Muhammad as-Saffar and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi both follow conventions of the riḥla genre by recording not only the...
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  • 1826, intellectual and academic Rifa'a al-Tahtawi was sent to Paris in one of the Muhammad Ali's scholar missions. Tahtawi studied ethics, social and political...
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  • (al-Nahda), some primarily Egyptian, Lebanese and Syrian writers and poets Rifa'a at-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Butrus al-Bustani, and Francis Marrash believed...
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  • inspect philosophical problems. In terms of African philosophy, one must look at the whole picture through the lens of African history. “There are no facts...
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  • Habib Elmasry John of Nikiû Manetho Menassa Youhanna Raouf Abbas Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi Abdel Latif Moubarak...
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  • translators during that period was Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873), who translated many scientific books for the army's use. Al-Tahtawi's influence is mostly recognized...
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    Muhammad Ali of Egypt's French-trained forces occupy Syria. Scholar Rifa'a at-Tahtawi returns from study in Paris to Egypt, where he will participate in...
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  • Kumbaro Fan Noli Luan Rama Robert Shvarc Petro Zheji Ibn al-Muqaffa' Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Taha Hussein – translator of Sophocles, Racine, and others Hafs ibn...
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    Muhammad Ali sent a scholarly mission from Egypt to France, including Rifa'a at-Tahtawi, who later proposed the establishment of Madrasat al-Alsun in 1836...
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  • underwent a reorganization in 1836, and Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ aṭ-Ṭahṭāwī was appointed head of the Madrasat al-Alsun in 1837. At the Madrasat al-Alsun, the European...
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    why she performed a thousand ritual prostrations both during the day and at night, she is said to have answered, "I desire no reward for it; I do it so...
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    Islamic world. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Former Imam of Al-Azhar. Rifa'a el-Tahtawi, writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, renaissance intellectual...
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    owing to opportunities for looting. One of Mohammad Ali's officials, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, persuaded him in 1836 to embark on preserving Egypt's heritage by...
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    Palestine to the Banu Muttalib clan of the Quraysh tribe, he was relocated at the age of two and raised in Mecca. He later resided in Medina, Yemen, Baghdad...
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    was also made a professor of history at Dar al-ʿUlūm the following year, and of Arabic language and literature at Madrasat al-Alsun. ʿAbduh was a champion...
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    nation-state. The first Egyptian renaissance intellectual was Rifa'a el-Tahtawi. In 1831, Tahtawi undertook a career in journalism, education and translation...
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  • Virginia. Osama bin Laden (1957–2011), founder of al-Qaeda Qasim Amin Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Rosemary Barkett (Syrian), first woman Supreme Court Justice and Chief...
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    his father pledging allegiance to the Almohad Caliph Abū Ya’qūb Yūsuf I. At that time Ibn ʿArabī was only 7 years old, and his family relocated from Murcia...
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