Egyptian intellectuals translated Le Bon rather than Durkheim into Arabic

Evidence

Ahmad Fathi Zaghlul, Sirr tatawwur al-umam (Cairo: Matbaat al-Maarif, 1913), a translation of Le Bon’s Lois psychologiques de l’évolution des peuples, 12th ed. (Paris: Alcan, 1916), translated into English as The Psychology of Peoples (New York: Macmillan, 1898); Taha Husayn, Ruh al-tarbiya (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1922), a translation of Le Bon’s Psychologie de l’éducation (Paris: Flammarion, 1904; nouvelle edition, 1912, ‘augmenté de plusieurs chapitres sur les méthodes d’éducation en Amérique et sur l’enseignement donné aux indigènes des colonies’); Ahmad Fathi Zaghlul also translated Le Bon’s Aphorisms du temps présent (Paris: Flammarion, 1913), published posthumously as Jawami al-kalim (Cairo: al-Matbaa al-Rahmaniyya, 1922). — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 847 (#expands, via linked claim)

A number of Egyptians attended Durkheim’s lectures on education and social theory at the Sorbonne, including the writer and future education minister Taha Husayn. But the works on education and social theory that Taha Husayn and others chose to translate into Arabic were not those of Durkheim. They chose instead the writings of a better known contemporary, who in 1895, the same year as The Rules of Sociological Method appeared, published a famous work on The Crowd. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 391 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gustave Le Bon’s works were translated into Arabic by leading Egyptian intellectuals — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 847; Egyptian intellectuals chose Le Bon over Durkheim despite hearing both — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 391; Le Bon’s psychology of education was translated into Arabic with colonial-education chapters

Broader Connections

• Gustave Le Bon’s works were translated into Arabic by leading Egyptian intellectuals #expands (0.95) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 847
• Egyptian intellectuals chose Le Bon over Durkheim despite hearing both #corroborates (0.93) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 391