Died 1873-05-27.
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Rifa'a at-Tahtawi
Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, and intellectual of the Nahda.
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science · Egyptian academic (1801–1873) · translator · journalist · archaeologist · historian · philosopher · economist · writer · scholar · poet · journal editor · also Rifa'a at-Tahtawi, Rifāʿat Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī, at-Tahtawi
Born 15 October 1801 · Died 27 May 1873 · Q981929
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1873· 2 entries
And reflecting the main precepts of Tahtawi's educational thoughts, and was a response to a request from the Egyptian Ministry of Education to "compose a book on the humanities and pedagogy that can be used for the educa
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1869· 1 entry
Crystallizing Tahtawi's opinions on modernization
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1868· 1 entry
And tracing the history of ancient Egypt till the dawn of Islam
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1835· 2 entries
Founded a School of Languages in Cairo, and he was influential in the development of science, law, literature, and Egyptology in 19th-century Egypt
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Which become part of Ain Shams University in 1973
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1834· 1 entry
A detailed account of his 5-year-long stay in France, Takhlis al-ibriz fi talkhis Bariz ('The Extrication of Gold in Summarizing Paris'), and from then on became one of the first Egyptian scholars to write about Western
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1831· 1 entry
Tahtawi returned home to be part of the statewide effort to modernize the Egyptian infrastructure and education
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1801· 2 entries
Born 1801-10-15.
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In the village of Tahta, Sohag, the same year the French troops evacuated Egypt
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