Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti

عبد الرحمن الجبرتي

1754 CE · 1167 AH – 1822 CE · 1237 AH

The historian of Egypt, who recorded its events and the lives of its men in the era of the French expedition and after.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Historian · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
Identifiers
Wikidata
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Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (founder of the Shaykhi school, 1753–1826) · Bayram al-Thani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Hamdan Khoja · Shah Abd al-Aziz al-Dihlawi · al-Shawkani

History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

  • HistorianTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan al-Jabarti (1167–1237 AH, around 1754–1822 CE) was an Egyptian historian who recorded the events of Egypt and the lives of its men in the age of the French expedition and after. 1

The data is brief; details of his life and books need an additional source.

People and things also explored

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.