born 1801, ah, Egypt died 1873, Egypt Egyptian teacher and scholar. Beginning in 1826, he spent five years in Paris as a religious teacher for a group of Egyptian students and later was appointed head of a state language school (1836) and a translation bureau (1841) in Cairo. In these capacities he played a central role in bringing Western science and methods to Egypt. Under the anti-Western administration of khedive Abbs I (1848-54), he was sent to teach school in Khartoum, Sudan, but later returned to resume his work in translation and education