The contemporaries

Author: Muhammad Kurd Ali Classification: History Publisher: Al-Rafidain Publishing and Distribution Publication date: 2025 Cover design: Cardboard (paperback) Number of pages: 448 About the book: A massive record of the achievements of contemporary scholars of thinker Muhammad Kurd Ali, accompanied by their brilliant scientific biographies, as his center in the presidency of the Arab Linguistic Academy benefited from knowing them and their contemporaneity during critical periods. Among this elite: the scholar Mahmoud Shaker Al-Alusi, the poet Ma'ruf Al-Rusafi, Father Anastas al-Karmali, Sheikh Muhammad Rida Al-Shibibi, the scholar Taha Al-Rawi, the princes Shukayb and Adel Arslan, Amin and Iskandar Al-Malouf, Prince Rihani, Louis Chikho, Philippe Tarazi, Badr al-Din Al-Nassani, and Prince Faisal bin Hussein. His connections with orientalists were also close, headed by the Italian prince Cattani, Masseignon, Gold Tschihér, Hotsma, Hartmann, and Blashir. Kurd Ali dedicated fair chapters to most of these Arab and Persian figures in the book, but the lion's share was for his Egyptian contemporaries. What added value and uniqueness to this edition was the editing of its footnotes in a new style and their updating based on new writings that addressed all the issues Kurd Ali discussed, matching the text with the first edition issued by the Arab Language Academy in Damascus. It is a unique jewel in the necklace of the Al-Rafidain project, reviving the timeless heritage of one of the thinkers of the Arabic language and its intellectual renaissance, as well as a highly distinctive historical and intellectual document about men who shaped central roles in Arab and world history, in precious articles for every reader.