Volney's Journal of Travel and Its Impact on Napoleon Bonaparte's Campaign to Egypt

Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation

Sayyed Kamal KeshikNevis Razavi ¹ , Abdollah Hemmati Golyan ²

1 - Ph.D Student of History and Civilization of Islamic Nations, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of History and Civilizationof Muslim Nations, Faculty of Theology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2017-07-18 Accepted : 2017-08-03 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: Volney, Napoleon Bonaparte, Travelogue, Egypt,

Abstract :

For understanding the Orient, the journals of travels were the important sources for Europeans. The number of those journals had steadily increased from the eighteenth century in which there is a report of the visit of Constantine Francois de Chassebœuf Volney to Egypt And Syria (1785-1783). In his journal, particularly the Egyptian section, he is mainly aware of the various aspects of the land, including Egyptian rulers, the climate, business, people's lives, and so on. While the information of his journal had an impact on the Napoleon campaign, the researchers such as Edward Saeed emphasized strongly on it. This article gives a review on the Egyptian part of Volney travel journal and prove that the information of that had affected the Napoleon invasion of Egypt. References Ḳurʾān-i Karīm. Abū Ghunaym, ʿAbdallāh Yūsuf, Maṣādir al- Bakrī wa Manhadjuhu al- Djughrāfī, Kuwait,  Dhāt al- Salāsil, 1996/ 1374. 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[1]. تاریخ دریافت: 27/4/1396، تاریخ پذیرش: 12/5/1396 

[2]. رایانامه (مسؤول مکاتبات): [e-mail]

[3]. رایانامه:  [e-mail]

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انجمن دوستدار قانون اساسی یا حزب ژاکوبن که در انقلاب کبیر فرانسه نقش مهمی داشتند (ماله، ۴۱۰).

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[39]. Lachaise

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[45] . کلود-اتی‌ین ساواری (Claude-Étienne Savary) خاورشناس فرانسوی و یکی از مترجمان قرآن به زبان فرانسوی است.  او در ۲ اکتبر ۱۷۴۹ در شهر ویتره فرانسه، به دنیا آمد و تحصیلاتش را در همان‌جا پی گرفت. در سال ۱۷۷۶ به مصر سفر کرد و این سفر تا سال ۱۷۸۱ به درازا انجامید و مدتی در اسکندریه، رشید و قاهره ماند و در همان‌جا بود که زیر نظر مسلمانان، ترجمه قرآن را آغاز کرد. به مدت دو سال نیز به یونان سفر کرد و در رودس و کاندیا ماند. ترجمه قرآن او در ۱۷۸۳ منتشر شد. وی در ۴ فوریه ۱۷۸۸ درگذشت. 109 Michaud,.

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[49]. francois rene de chateaubriand (1768-1848).

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[51]. Gerard Nerval (1808-1855).

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[53]. Jean-louis asselin de cherville (1772-1822).

[54]. Ibid, 25.

[55]. La Corse

[56]. Gaulmier, 253-254.

[57]. Auxonne

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[59]. Bonaparte, 3/25.

[60]. Cole, 45.

[61]. Roberts, 33.

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[69]. Ibid, 214-216.

[70]. Ibid, 192-194.

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[77]. Ibid, 53.

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[80]. Volney, 61-62.

[81]. جبرتى، 2/189.

[82]. Volney, 67-90.

[83]. Ibid, 69.

[84]. Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1766-1834).

[85]. François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison (1759-1834).

[86]. Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825).

[87]. جبرتی، 2/235.

[88]. Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, (1625-1695).

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[90]. جبرتی، 2/ 234.

[91]. Volney, 105.

[92]. جبرتی، 2/182و 188.

[93]. Volney, 150-175.

[94]. Ibid, 262.

[95]. جبرتی، 2/ 179-181.

[96]. جبرتی (2/214) از وابستگی حیات و آبادانی مصر به  آب راه میان دریای سیاه و دریای سرخ سخن گفته است.

[97]. جبرتی، 2/ 218.

[98]. Volney, 217-234.

[99]. Édouard, 368.

[100]. Volney, 61.

[101]. Ibid, 240-244.

[102]. Malthus, 131.

[103]. Volney ,164.

[104]. Ibid, 127.

[105]. جبرتی، 2،/182-184.

[106]. Malthus, 123.

[107]. جبرتی، 2/235.

[108]. Smith, 234.

[109]. Keith, 104, 108, 116, 118, 134, 168, 217.

[110]. Smith, 1810, 117-119.

[111]. جبرتی، 2/ 189.

[112]. Singham, 203.

[113]. Volney, 497.

[114]. Ibid, 370.

[115]. Singham, 203.

[116]. Volney, 481.

[117]. جبرتی، 2/ 193، 221، 235.

[118]. Singham, 204.