Observations On A Unique Cufic Gold Issued By Al-âamir Beâkhcam Allah, Abû Ali Manzour Ben Mustali, Tenth Caliph Of The Fatimite Dynasty

by Louis Loewe

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30 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2018

About the author

Louis Loewe, Ph.D. (University of Berlin), was a linguist, Orientalist, and theologian who served as Principal of Jews' College from its opening in 1856, and of the theological college at Ramsgate from its opening in 1869.

He was educated at the yeshibot of Lissa, Nikolsburg, Presburg, and at the University of Berlin. Soon after his arrival in London he was introduced to the Duke of Sussex, who in 1839 appointed him his "Orientalist." He then traveled in the East, where he studied Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Nubian, Turkish, and Circassian. In Cairo he was presented to the khedive, Mohammed Ali Pasha, for whom he translated some hieroglyphic inscriptions. While in Palestine he was attacked by Bedouins, who took everything he had with him, including his collections and note-books. On his return he met at Rome Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, who invited him to travel with them to the Holy Land. When in 1840 Sir Moses went on his Damascus expedition, Loewe accompanied him as his interpreter.