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

Intellectual History Review 25 (2):209-233 (2015)
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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...

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10.1080/17496977.2014.970372

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