About Niqula al-Turk
Lived 1763 – 1828 (aged 64–65). Niqula al-Turk was a Turkish historian and poet.
Niqula bin Yusuf al-Turk (1763–1828) was a scholar, historian, and poet at the court of Amir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in modern-day Lebanon). Of Greek descent, he accompanied Napoleon's expedition in Egypt and wrote an account of it, which was translated in French by Desgranges as Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte (published in 1839). Gaston Wiet has published his memoirs as Chronique d'Égypte, 1798–1804. Al-Turk died, blind, in Dayr al-Qamar.
His daughter, Warda al Turk (1797–1873), was also a poet.
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Who was Niqula al-Turk?
Scholar and poet
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Niqula al-Turk was born in 1763 in Deyr el-Qamar.
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Niqula al-Turk died in 1828 in Deyr el-Qamar.
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Niqula al-Turk was a historian and poet.
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Niqula al-Turk was Turkish.
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