Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti, Jr

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Name: Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
Title: Al Jabarti
Birth: 1753
Death: 1825
Ethnicity: Somali
Region: Horn of Africa/North Africa
Main interests: Islamic philosophy, Islamic Jurisprudence


Biography
While little is known of his life, according to Franz Steiner, al-Jabarti was born in the village of Tell el Gabarti in the northern Delta province of Beheira, while Abdulkader Saleh states that al-Jabarti was born in Cairo. According to al-Jabarti's writings, his name comes from his "seventh-degree grandfather," Abd al-Rahman, who was the earliest member of his family known to him. Abd al-Rahman was from the al-Jabart region in Zeila, modern Somalia and visited the Riwaqs of the Jabarti communities in Mecca and Medina before making it to Egypt where he became Sheikh of the Riwaq there and head of the Jabarti community.

Trained as a shaykh at al-Azhar University, al-Jabarti began keeping a monthly chronicle of events in Cairo. This chronicle, which is generally known in English simply as al-Jabarti's History of Egypt, and known in Arabic as Aja'ib al-athar fi al-tarajim wal-akhbar (عجائب الاَثار في التراجم والاخبار), became a world-famous historical text by virtue of its eyewitness accounts of Napoleon's invasion and Muhammad Ali's seizure of power. The entries from his chronicle dealing with the French expedition and occupation have been excerpted and compiled in English as a separate volume entitled Napoleon in Egypt.

According to Marsot, at the end of his life, al-Jabarti chose to be buried in Tell al-Gabarti, the town to which he traced his descent.



References

My diaries: being a personal narrative of events, 1888-1914‎ - Page 81 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Cairo: a cultural and literary history‎ - Page 144 by Andrew Beattie

al-Jabarti, 'Abd al-Rahman. History of Egypt: 'Aja'ib al-Athar fi 'l-Tarajim wa'l-Akhbar. vol.1. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. 1994.

Abdulkader Saleh, "Ǧäbärti," in von Uhlig, Siegbert, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, p.597.

a b David Ayalon, "The Historian al-Jabartī and His Background," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1960, p.238

A history of Arabic literature‎ pg 423 by Clément Huart

Marsot, Afaf Lutfi el-Sayyed. "A Comparative Study of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. and Niqula al-Turk," Eighteenth Century Egypt: The Arabic Manuscript Sources. Los Angeles: Regina Books, 1990.


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[waryaa]

navy did you look beyond wikipedia to see if this man was actually somali?

[Navy9]

Warya,

That's why I added the references "they" say have used in writing what is in that page!

I haven't yet read the Shiekh's book named 'Aja'ib al-Athar fi 'l-Tarajim wa'l-Akhbar but am sure it would be interesting like all history books

If you know arabic this is the link to it:
http://www.al-eman.com/islamlib/viewchp ... =176&CID=1

[djibsomali]

Aladin crossing the sea in a flying carpet

[Navy9]

Aladin crossing the sea in a flying carpet

You must have read the paragraph I deleted, when reading dates I automatically assume the Gregorian and I fall in error.

[Cali_Gaab]

Navy, i didn't know you were jeberti. Are there jebertis on your mother side?

[Navy9]

Navy, i didn't know you were jeberti. Are there jebertis on your mother side?

Dear brother, one of these days if you become a great scholar, not only your immediate family will be proud of you but all of your countrymen and the muslim nation.

[waryaa]

Tnx Navy! I am looking forward to learning more about this man. I will definitely share my findings with you

Warya,

That's why I added the references "they" say have used in writing what is in that page!

I haven't yet read the Shiekh's book named 'Aja'ib al-Athar fi 'l-Tarajim wa'l-Akhbar but am sure it would be interesting like all history books

If you know arabic this is the link to it:
http://www.al-eman.com/islamlib/viewchp ... =176&CID=1

My arabi is as bad as your Mandarin