A Note on Tunuslu Hayreddin Pasa.

From: Middle Eastern Studies | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: WASTI, SYED TANVIR | Copyright information

In his impressive, wide-ranging and erudite survey of Islam in the modern world, Elie Kedourie(1) refers to the efforts made by Khayr ad-Din al-Tunisi in 1867 to promote reforms in the Islamic world by publishing a book in Arabic,(2) the translation into French of the introductory part of which was published, just a year later, in Paris.(3) There is no doubt that Khayr ad-Din al-Tunisi was a man of extraordinary ability, proficient in Arabic and French and reasonably well acquainte...

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