Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi (Arabic: رفاعة رافع الطهطاوي, romanized: Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ aṭ-Ṭahṭāwī; 1801–1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist...

Arabe (1982). Egyptian Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801−1873) is considered one of the early adapters to Islamic Modernism...

distinction blurred as the renaissance progressed. Egyptian scholar Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873) is widely seen as the pioneering figure of the Nahda....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Zbigniew Szafrański (Polish) Mahmoud Maher Taha (Egyptian, born 1942) Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (Egyptian, 1801–1873) Gertrud Thausing (Austrian, 1905-1997) Elizabeth...

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...

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...

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]...

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...

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...

to be with his love. In his adaptation, the young lovers become acquainted at school and fell desperately in love. However, they could not see each other...

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...

time at age 28 and arrived at Tunis in 1193. After a year in Tunisia, he returned to Andalusia in 1194. His father died soon after Ibn Arabi arrived at Seville...

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...

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...

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...

Islamic world. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Former Imam of Al-Azhar. Rifa'a el-Tahtawi, writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, renaissance intellectual...

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...

Historical Department and head of the Media Department at the Center for Strategic Research and Studies at the University of Damascus. Ahmed Daoud is one of...

at the forefront of archaeology during the time of European colonialism, he has been compared to the Ottoman Osman Hamdi Bey and the Egyptian Rifa'a at-Tahtawi...

able to preach more freely. At that time a number of Sunnis, including former Christians who would later become viziers at the Abbasid court, became his...

Ali of Egypt's French-trained forces occupy Ottoman Syria. Scholar Rifa'a at-Tahtawi returns from study in Paris to Egypt, where he will participate in...

between the years 655 and 661 and during the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib at the age of around 120. Some historians suggest that Hassan bin Thabit died...

according to one story, he was employed during his boyhood selling water at a mosque in Cairo. His first appearance as a poet was in Egypt, but as he...

to Basra in lower Iraq where he attended Qur’an school and became a Hafiz at a young age. His youthful good looks and innate charisma attracted the attention...

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...