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Mar 30, 2024 · Napoleon did not, of course, come across Islam for the first time upon waking up one morning on Egyptian soil. Orientalism was in vogue in the West during the Age of Enlightenment, which is how the future French Emperor first heard of the religion. Orientalist thinkers such as de Volney and de Sacy held no secrets for him, not to mention his ...
- The Existing Ruling Powers
- Bonaparte’s Approach to Religion
- The Festivals
- The Suez Canal
- The End Result
- Bibliography
To do this Napoleon had to enlist the help of the ruling elite of Sheikhs, and to encourage them to take positions of power, in order to bring the rest of Egypt with them. As with the sheikhs, Napoleon had also to impress the Copts. The Copts, Christians in the heart of a Moslem society personified the permanent structures of Egyptian bureaucracy. ...
Napoleon's conciliatory approach to Islam is well documented. He is known to have admired the Mohammed – he even learned off by heart several suras of the Koran. His relationship with Christianity being one of a practical statesman – religion was useful as long as it was comforting to society, but dangerous if it lead to fanaticism. And his frank d...
Very cunningly Napoleon, steeped in the Revolutionary tradition of fêtes, made significant appearances at three fêtes in Egypt, namely the fête of the Nile (28 August, 1798), the fête or mawlid of the Prophet (anniversary of his birth beginning on 21 August, 1798), and the fête de la République (22 September, 1798). The Nile festival was a pagan ev...
Napoleon was, we know, interested in the canal in Egypt. In his school notebooks he copied a whole passage from Diodorus Siculus on the canal built by Necho. In his eleventh cahier (Masson, vol 2, p.47) Napoleon noted 'the isthmus of Suez…is only 30 leagues in length and…joins Asia and Africa'. Furthermore, in his sixteenth cahier (Masson, vol. 1, ...
The Egyptian expedition lasted only three years and three weeks. But despite that brief length of time, scholars and historians agree that this period has two important effects on the future development of Egyptian culture, namely: the introduction into Egypt of the principle of equality before the law; the development of Western culture in Egypt.
Arbois, G., 'L'impossible rêve oriental de Napoléon', S.[ouvenir] N.[apoléonien] 402, pp. 26-37 Brégeon, J.-J., L'Egypte française au jour le jour 1798-1801, Perrin, Paris, 1991 Ghali, I.A., 'L'Expedition d'Egypte vue par les auteurs égyptiens', S.N. 291, pp. 2-11 Masson, F. Napoléon inconnu, 2 vols. Ollendorff, Paris, 1895
According to Professor Edward W. Said, Napoleonic invasion led to the dominance of Orientalist narratives of the Muslim world: "with Napoleon's occupation of Egypt , processes were set in motion between East and West that still dominate our contemporary cultural and political perspectives.
May 5, 2021 · Indeed, Napoléon told his troops as they landed at Alexandria: “The people we will be living alongside are Muslims; their first article of faith is, ‘There is no other god but God and Muhammad is...
Imperial policies towards Islam were first studied by historians of Napoleonic Egypt. As early as 1914, Christian Cherfils published a pioneering book about French attempts to exploit Islam in Egypt politically." Shortly after the invasion 5 Francis Robinson, ed., The new Cambridge history of Islam, v: The Islamic world in the age of
The Arabs defeated the Byzantines and occupied the key cities of Syria and Palestine, and they vanquished the Persian army on the eastern front in Mesopotamia and Iraq. The next obvious step was to secure Syria against a possible attack launched from the Byzantine province of Egypt.
May 14, 2024 · Context: Napoleonic Wars. Key People: Napoleon I. Battle of the Pyramids, (July 21, 1798), military engagement in which Napoleon Bonaparte and his French troops captured Cairo. His victory was attributed to the implementation of his one significant tactical innovation, the massive divisional square. (See “Napoleon’s Major Battles” Interactive Map)
