DOI 10.12887/37-2024-2-146-06



Marek M. DZIEKAN, Towards a Reconstruction of the Intellectual Past: ʿAlī Ibn Sālim al-Wardānī and His Al-Riḥlah al-Andalusīyah


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The aim of the paper is a presentation and analysis of the account made by ʿAlī al- Wardānī’, a Tunisian official and writer, of his trip to Spain in 1887. While the nineteenth century Arab travel literature is quite rich and an object of extensive research, al-Wardānī’s journey was only briefly discussed in 1937 by Henri Pérès and has not been studied more deeply since that time. Al-Wardānī came from Tunisia and arrived in Istanbul together with Khayr al-Dīn, who highly appreciated his talents. During his service in Turkey, Sultan Abdülamid sent a group of intellectuals to study collections of Arabic manuscripts in Europe. Al-Wardānī found himself as a translator in a group led by Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-Shinqīṭī, which had the aim of examining, among other things, the Arab collections at El Escorial and in Andalusian libraries. The result of the expedition was a report prepared for the sultan by al-Shinqīṭī and a memoir of the journey written by al-Wardānī, the latter originally published in parts in various issues of the journal al-Ḥāḍirah from 1888 to 1890 and as a separate, fully edited book only in 1984. 

Keywords: ʿAlī al-Wardānī, Tunis, Spain, Andalusia, journey

Contact: Department of Middle East and North Africa, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Łódź, ul. Narutowicza 68, 90-136 Łódź, Poland
E-mail: marek.dziekan@uni.lodz.pl
https://www.uni.lodz.pl/pracownicy/marek-dziekan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0291-2997



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