The first Arabic translations of Enlightenment literature: The Damietta circle of the 1800s and 1810

The subject of this paper is a circle of translators working in the Egyptian port of Damietta in the 1800s and 1810s. Based around the household of a wealthy Syrian merchant, this circle translated scientific, fictional and historical works of the Enlightenment, from Greek and other languages into A...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Hill, P
Fformat: Journal article
Cyhoeddwyd: Taylor and Francis 2015