{"product_id":"turkey-egypt-and-syria-a-travelogue-9780815636540","title":"Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue","description":"\u003ci\u003eTurkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue\u003c\/i\u003e vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Nu'mani (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Nu'mani took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way, he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Nu'mani records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare glimpses of intellectual networks, religious festivals, visual and literary culture, and everyday life in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. First published in 1894, the travelogue has since become a classic of Urdu travel writing and has been immensely influential in the intellectual and political history of South Asia. This translation, the first into English, includes contemporary reviews of the travelogue, letters written by the author during his travels, and serialized newspaper reports about the journey, and is deeply enriched for readers and students by the translator's copious multilingual glosses and annotations. Nu'mani's chronicle offers unique insight into broader processes of historical change in this part of the world while also providing a rare glimpse of intellectual engagement and exchange across the porous borders of empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shibli Numani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 7.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815636540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShibli \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNu'mani\u003c\/b\u003e (1857-1914) was an Indian educator, historian, and writer. His travelogue of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, his critical studies of Urdu \u003ci\u003emarsiyah\u003c\/i\u003e poetry and Persian poetry, and his biographies of the Abbasid caliph al-Mamun, Nu'mani bin Sabit (Abu Hanifah), 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and the Prophet Muhammad are considered classics in Urdu. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Maxwell Bruce\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at the Unviersity of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40465513283699,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":59.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a194c6dc-44bf-4668-a33b-a10ab9d9a28f.jpg?v=1664026425","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/turkey-egypt-and-syria-a-travelogue-9780815636540","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}