Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.


Format Inbunden Omfång 376 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Syracuse University Press Utgivningsdatum 2019-12-30 ISBN 9780815636564