Abstract
The French Revolution was the first European movement of social and intellectual transformation to leave an impact on the Arabic-speaking world. Nine years after 1789, the forces of that Revolution reached the East as Napoleon’s armies and navies invaded Egypt and Palestine. From that year on changes began— specifically in Egypt—that led to extensive interactions with French institutions and with European culture, thus heralding the Arab Nahda (Renaissance).
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Matar, N. (2014). On the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion: Arab Perceptions of the World. In: Eid, M., Karim, K.H. (eds) Re-Imagining the Other. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403667_3
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