Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the First Seven Months of the French Occupation, 1798 by Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti

Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the First Seven Months of the French Occupation, 1798

Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti

186 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This book is a narrow view of a turning point in modern history. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between an imperial Western power and an ancien régime of an African society. Shaykh Al-Jabartī's chronicle is a unique com...

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