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Napoleon in Egypt

by Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti · 1993

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When Napoleon descended upon Egypt in 1798 it was the first contact between a Western European power with imperial ambitions & the Arab world. Sheikh Al-Jabarti chronicled the occupation & has left a fascinating record of how the Arabs viewed the French enterprise.

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adult
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medium · 218 pages

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