One of the most significant historians is renowned as being the brilliant Abdel Rahman Al-Jabarti. The Wonders of Antiquities in Translations and News, also known as “History of Al-Jabarti,” is a book written by an Egyptian who records the French battle against Egypt. It serves as a fundamental resource for understanding that significant time in the French campaign.
After the French campaign ended, “Al-Jabarti” lived through another trying time marked by internal strife and Mamluk conflicts of control, their uprising against the “Ottoman Empire” and its lords and the waning of its sway, the Egyptian revolution against the Ottoman governor Khorshid, and their installation of “Muhammad Ali” as the nation’s governor (1805 AD). Next came the English Fraser campaign (1807 AD), which won
Al-Jabarti” without his complete testimony, in his book “The Wonders of Antiquities” (History of Al-Jabarti), in four parts, and his book came as a single and unique reference for the years 1788 to 1821 AD, and described as his most important books. It took him 15 years to write, and he started writing in 1811 AD, roughly ten years after the French campaign’s withdrawal and four years after the Fraser campaign’s withdrawal.
The book of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti was revered by scholars and historians in the past, but it appears that more recent research has cast doubt on the history of the late. In the book “Re-writing the History of the British Campaign on the Egyptian City of Rashid 1807 in Light of the British Archive Documents,” written by Professor of History Dr.
Ahmed Darwish Al-Jabarti misrepresented the events surrounding the “Battle of Rashid,” and it was later clarified that he took Alexandrian territory that had been suspended under the tyranny of Amin Agha and handed it over without a struggle, as well as the Ottomans’ collaboration with the British and the Ottoman governor Muhammad Ali’s failure to defend Rashid despite his country’s victory margin.
According to the aforementioned book, the book of wonders of antiquities is not a historical book, as it is merely weak novels, notes and narratives that the author restricts its units, without arrangement or coordination. that time frame.
. Abdul Rahman Al-Jabarti Is it possible to rely on the late historian as a single reference for his era?
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