Packet 5: Bonus 20
Answer the following about the adoption of the printing press in 19th-century Egypt, for 10 points each.
[10e] Egypt’s first Arabic printing press may have been used by this leader for a proclamation that began and ended with the shahada, teasing a conversion to Islam. A month later, this leader won the Battle of the Pyramids.
ANSWER: Napoleon I Bonaparte [or Napoleon Bonaparte; or Napoleone di Buonaparte]
[10m] Muhammad Ali Pasha founded the Bulaq Press, whose output of Arabic literature and European translations contributed to this “Arab Enlightenment” that coincided with the Tanzimat. An original-language term is required.
ANSWER: Nahda [or an-Nahḍa]
[10h] Helen Kitchen dubbed the Taqla brothers’ paper Al-Ahram “the Times of the Arab world” for platforming figures like Atatürk and this Al-Azhar (“al-uzz-har”) scholar. This Islamic Modernist circulated The Firmest Bond with al-Afghani before becoming Grand Mufti of Egypt.
ANSWER: Muhammad Abduh
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