Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo ‘Alī Mubārak, al-Khiṭaṭ al-Tawfīqīya al-Jadīda

The Database of ‘Alī Mubārak, al-Khiṭaṭ al-Tawfīqīya al-Jadīda

This database aims to provide easy access to the text of ‘Alī Mubārak, al-Khiṭat ̣al-Tawfīqīya al-Jadīda, one of most important sources for modern Egyptian history. The bibliographical data of this database is following:

علي مبارك ، الخطط التوفيقية الجديدة لمصر القاهرة ومدنها وبلادها القديمة والشهيرة ، بولاق ، المطبعة الكبرى الأميرية ، 1304-1306هـ (1886-1888).

‘Alī Mubārak, al-khiṭaṭ al-tawfīqīya al-jadīda li-miṣr al-qāhira wa-muduni-hā wa-bilādi-hā al-qadīma wa-al-shahīra, Būlāq, al-Maṭbaʻa al-Kubrā al-Amīrīya, H.1304-06 (1886-88).

(How to use this database)
From Table of Contents, you can access to all the pages of al-khiṭaṭ (image data) from the contents of twenty volumes.
From Search, you can search both “Cairo” (from Vol. 1 to Vol.7) and “Famous Towns and Villages” (from Vol.8 to Vol. 17) by free word search and name of place (such as شارع), title of person (such as امام), and institution (such as مسجد). As for the volumes of “Famous Towns and Villages,” you can search names of governorate and markaz and school of Islamic law (madhhab) of ‘ulama. The search words were basically taken from index of each volume but also were partly chosen from its text.

(Acknowledgement)
We would like to show our gratitude to the Library of Institute of Development Economies for permitting us to digitalize the original text of al-Khiṭaṭ and to take it public on this web site. Parts of the data construction in this database were supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research and Publication of Scientific Research Result from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). We must show our gratitude to the persons who assisted us and participated in this database project as follows: Ms. Lisa Iino, Mr. Masahito Umeuchi, Ms. Kazuko Egawa, Ms. Mitsuko Saito, Ms. Yukie Tamura, Ms. Nagla Fathi, and Ms. Yoko Matsumoto. Especially we extend our special gratitude to Ms. Tamura for her support to this revised edition.

Finally we would like to our great gratitude to Mr. Kazushi Murase for his technical support for constructing the system of this database, its search system in particular.

＊, 2006

Eiji Nagasawa

Professor, the West Asian Department,

Institute of Oriental Culture,

The University of Tokyo

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