Mubarak’s 1857 novelized his views of Egypt and Sudan

Evidence

But for his ideas about the Sudan, we have to turn to his extraordinary text, the fictional narrative titled Alam al-Dïn, written much earlier, in 1857, when the author was just reaching a position of real authority. Alam al-Dïn is the story of an intellectually gifted but very poor al-Azhär scholar named Alam al-Dïn, who is engaged by an Englishman (known throughout the fifteen-hundred-page work only as al-Inklïzï) to work with him on a volume called Lisän al-Arab (The Languages of the Arabs),on the condition that Alam al-Dïn travel with him to Alexandria, Marseilles, and Paris. Alam al-Dïn decides, with his wife’s full support, to go and to bring his young son, Burhan al-Dïn, with him. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 268

Categorization

• QUESTION: The novel `Alam al-Din, written by an Egyptian modernist about journeying to Europe and Africa — worth tracking down for the Sudan section specifically.