Alexandria, the Threshold of Egypt: A Comparative Study on Volney and Jabarti's Idea of Alexandria in the Late 18th Century

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Sayyed Kamal Keshiknevis Razavi, Abbas Ahmadvand, Mina Moazzeni
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Alexandria is the second-largest city in Egypt; this city is the threshold of Egypt and the first place by the sea where travelers encounter and create an idea of Egypt in their minds. Many western travelers, such as Hartmann Schedel, André Thevet, Jacob Peeters, Charles Perry, Volney, Dumont, and others have visited Alexandria and wrote reports on the City past and present, through which their opinions of the city can be accessed. Without a doubt, looking at Alexandria from a traveler's point of opinion differs from the opinions of a person who has lived there and observed the city from the inside. The question is how each of these two perspectives encounters the city. What questions have each of them asked and what answers have they given? And do these questions and answers come from their social and cultural background? Can a comparison of these two opinions provide a picture of the city to help better understand its history? It seems that the questions and answers of these observers come from their social backgrounds. At the same time Volney (1757-1820) lived in France, Abdul Rahman bin Hassan al-Jabarti (1825-1753) lived in Egypt. In this study, using an asymmetric macro-comparison method, we have attempted to evaluate the information in Volney's travelogue and Jabarti's ''Ajāeb-al Asār'' based on their perspective of the inside (Jabarti) and outside (Volney) of Alexandria. In his introduction to the late 18th century Alexandria, Volney seems to be much attached to the ideas from the French society, At the same time, Jabarti did not pay much attention to the question of Alexandria's urbanization and focused more on those who went to the city and left it. He laid the focus on the political and military situation of the city. Keywords: Alexandria, Volney, Jabarti, Egyptology, Travelogue, Travel Theory
亚历山大,埃及的门槛:18世纪晚期沃尔尼与贾巴蒂的亚历山大观比较研究
亚历山大是埃及第二大城市;这座城市是埃及的门槛,也是旅行者第一个在海边相遇并在脑海中产生埃及想法的地方。许多西方旅行者,如Hartmann Schedel、AndréThevet、Jacob Peeters、Charles Perry、Volney、Dumont和其他人,都曾访问过亚历山大,并撰写了关于这座城市过去和现在的报告,通过这些报告可以了解他们对这座城市的看法。毫无疑问,从旅行者的角度来看亚历山大与从内部观察这座城市的人的观点不同。问题是这两种视角中的每一种都是如何与城市相遇的。他们每个人都问了什么问题,给出了什么答案?这些问题和答案是否来自他们的社会和文化背景?这两种观点的比较能否提供一幅城市的图景,帮助更好地了解它的历史?这些观察者的问题和答案似乎来自他们的社会背景。在沃尔尼(1757-1820)居住在法国的同时,阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·本·哈桑·贾巴蒂(1825-1753)居住在埃及。在这项研究中,我们试图使用非对称的宏观比较方法,基于Volney游记和Jabarti游记中关于亚历山大内外的观点,对其信息进行评估。在对18世纪晚期亚历山大的介绍中,沃尔尼似乎非常重视法国社会的思想。与此同时,贾巴蒂并不太关注亚历山大的城市化问题,而是更多地关注那些去了城市又离开城市的人。他将重点放在了城市的政治和军事局势上。关键词:亚历山大,沃尔尼,贾巴蒂,埃及学,游记,旅行理论
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Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization Arts and Humanities-History
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