Rifa'a at-Tahtawi
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Egyptian scholar
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Rifa'a at-Tahtawi's Degrees
- Bachelors Islamic Law Al-Azhar University
Why Is Rifa'a at-Tahtawi Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, and intellectual of the Nahda . One of the first Egyptian travellers to France in the nineteenth century, Tahtawi published in 1834 a detailed account of his 5-year-long stay in France, Takhlīṣ al-ʾibrīz fī talkhīṣ Bārīz , and from then on became one of the first Egyptian scholars to write about Western culture in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation and an understanding between Islamic and Christian civilizations.
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