Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Middle . Bruce Hardcover**

Syracuse University Press

Turkey, Egypt, and SyriaA Travelogue\nAuthor(s): Shibli Numani, Gregory Maxwell Bruce\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Syracuse University Press, United States\nImprint: Syracuse University Press\nISBN-13: 9780815636564, 978-0815636564\nSynopsis\nTurkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli Numani [tel] as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh, Numani took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts to use as sources for a series of biographies on major figures in Islamic history. Along the way, he collected information on schools, curricula, publishers, and newspapers, presenting a unique portrait of imperial culture at a transformative moment in the history of the Middle East. Numani records sketches and anecdotes that offer rare .