FREN 4585 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Assia Djebar, Franz Rosenthal, Universal History
11 Dec 2018
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La m me langue est pass e des conqu rants aux assimiles . Parce que les fran ais ont d cid que ibn khaldoun tait un des historiens qu"il faut savoir au. Franz rosenthal - felt that ms arabic was dead so never learned it. His intention was to write a universal history. Dr al-rahim says that he has problems with dating, theological arguments. What"s important about him is that he wrote this book. It wasn"t understood why he spent so much time on the introduction. He"s appropriated in the modern period as being rationalist . Autobiographies not as a genre in the muslim/arab world. Question of identity comes up in his autobiography. 1697: barth lemy d"herbelot de molainville"s biblioth que orientale. 1806: ibn khaldun began gaining more attention from 1806, when. Silvestre de sacy"s chrestomathie arabe included his biography together with a translation. The french translated him in order to better take over algeria/counter algerian nationalists/islamists.
