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ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jabartī (1754–1822)
Autore di Napoleon In Egypt: Al-jabarti's Chronicle Of The French Occupation, 1798 [Expanded Edition]
Sull'Autore
Opere di ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jabartī
Napoleon In Egypt: Al-jabarti's Chronicle Of The French Occupation, 1798 [Expanded Edition] (1994) 53 copie
عجائب الآثار في التراجم والأخبار 2 copie
آخرة المماليك 1 copia
قيام وسقوط على بك 1 copia
الغزوة الفرنسية 1 copia
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī's history of Egypt : ʿAjāi̓b al-Āthār fī'l-Tarājim wa'l-Akhbār (1994) 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Jabartī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān
- Data di nascita
- 1754
- Data di morte
- 1822
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Egypt
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Egypt
- Luogo di nascita
- Beheira, Egypt
- Luogo di morte
- Cairo, Egypt
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 123
- Popolarità
- #162,201
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
- Lingue
- 2
Napoleon is a _modern_ figure more than anything else, contemporaneous with the early Industrial Revolution, postdating the American Revolution; to see him referred to by an Arabic title, or described through the eyes of an author and a culture that seem like a better fit with the Middle Ages, is an experience so jarring as to verge on the comedic -- and to inspire some deep thoughts about the real nature of 'progress' and the extreme contingency of societies in the process.
No latent belief in social evolution, social progress, as a necessary thing, survives contact with the profoundly unintentional hilarity of this book: human societies, it reminds us, are really rather artificial, things of consensus rather than necessity, and they do not necessarily "develop" or "progress." "Evolution" of a society can be backwards as well as forwards; the mere fact that a century has a larger number does not mean that it's better than the century preceding it; and human societies never _have_ to change.… (altro)