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An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France 1826-1831

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In the 1820s, Rifaa Rafi al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture.

His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European
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