(vi) hed at first as an aid to my own studies, is now printed at the request y friends. The task has been no easy one, and I still hope to remedy at no distant any shortcomings which may be brought to my notice. The vastness the fascination of the subject must serve me as an excuse, and I trust those who consult these pages will not hesitate to give me the benefit heir corrections or suggestions. For the moment-arraigned at the rtial bar of public opinion-I shall content myself with a plea of good tions. A In one respect I am certainly fortunate, and that is in the manner in h the great subject I have endeavoured to treat has been worked at he writers of all time. Egyptian lore in all its branches has always ed to be a magic attraction to the most celebrated authors of every age; whether there be occasion to consult some occult treatise on the hieroglyphic ings of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, or a modern statement of a contemporary tion of social economy, some fruitful fount of knowledge is sure to be at if the seeker only know where to find it. To such inquirers as these mbly offer myself as a guide-sadly lacking perfection and skill, it is but the only one up to the present time who has been willing to rtake the task in the extended form presented in these pages. In passing in review successive periods of the history of Egypt, my has been oftentimes wrung by the sad contrast which its present ortunes offer to its past prosperity. When I think of the days of my infancy, and of the times of my great ancestor Mehemet Ali, I should way to something akin to despair if I did not remember his remarkable words. "Whatever," said the venerable founder of our race, may be the reverses that may happen in times to come to my country, they will never have the power to destroy the richness and the dynasty that God has given to Egypt, and which He alone can annihilate." In the dark days which have overtaken the Egyptians, the descendants of Mehemet Ali still place their hope and the hope of their country in him who, during eighteen years, laboured so hard to develop its abundance and fertility, and who has borne without a murmur all the bitterness of exile. With this apology and explanation, I present my readers with the result of my labours. LA FAVORITE, RESINA, NAPLES, 7th January, 1886. IBRAHIM-HILMY. i NOTE. As for some time my leisure will be employed in riching this BIBLIOGRAPHY, I shall feel grateful for the comnication to my PRINTERS of any notes of omissions in or sirable additions to it, for future editions of the work. IBRAHIM - HILMY. تحفة الناظرين في من تصرف في الولاة والسلاطين مصر من وقايع الد "Merveilles éclatantes, 5 sur les événements des siècles." ceur parle d'abord de la création du ciel la terre, puis il traite des fleuves, du du phare d'Alexandrie, de la colonne de re, etc. Il passe ensuite à l'histoire am, des patriarches, de Salomon, de 'l-Qarnaïn, de Jonas, de Jean fils de arie, de la vierge Marie, de Jésus, de échrist, de Mahomet, des merveilles de pte, etc. MS. daté de l'an 1154 de ire (1741 de J. C.). 200 feuillets. bic Ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, 5, No. 1403.] "Présent pour les observateurs, indiquant les préfets et les rois qui ont gouverné l'Égypte." L'auteur donne d'abord un résumé de l'histoire d'Égypte, depuis l'époque de Mahomet jusqu'au règne du sultan ottoman Sélim III. Il termine (fol. 57 v°) par le récit de l'Expédition Française en Égypte, depuis l'an 1213 de l'hégire jusqu'au départ des Français. MS. copié sur l'original qui était daté de l'an 1228 de l'hégire (1813 de J. C.). 64 feuillets. [ [Arabic Ms. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, No. 1860.] 'ABD ALLAH IBN SA'OOD. See BURCKHARDT (J. L.). 'ABD-ALLAH ROUZ-NÂMEH. See NEDAYI. 'ABD AL-LATÍF IBN YUSUF IBN MUHAMMAD IBN 'ALÍ IBN ABÍ ALS'AD (MUWAFFIK AL-DÍN ABÚ MUHAMMAD), Al Baghdádí, called Ibn Al-Labbád. Abdollatiphi historia Egypti اخبار مصر compendium [translated by E. Pococke the younger; edited by T. Hyde]. Arab. and Lat. [Oxford, 1702?] 8°. Abdollatiphi Compendium Memorabilium Aegypti. Arabice e Codice Msco. Bodlejano edidit D. Joseph White. Praefatus est Henr. Eberh. Gottlb. Paulus. Tubingae (Cotta), 1789. 8o. Abdallatif's, eines arabischen Arztes, Denkwürdigkeiten Aegyptens, in Hinsicht auf Naturreich und physische Beschaffenheit des Landes und der Einwohner, Alterthumskunde, Baukunst, Oekonomie u. s. w., mit |