词条 | Browne, William George |
释义 | Browne, William George British explorer born July 25, 1768, London died June 1813, Iran British traveler in Central Africa and the Middle East and the first European to describe Darfur, a Muslim sultanate of Billād al-Sūdān, now part of The Sudan (Sudan, The). Browne was forcibly detained in Dārfūr (1793–96) and published his account of the event in Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria (1799, enlarged ed. 1806). In 1812 he began a journey from England to the city of Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan, and was murdered by robbers on the road through Iran from Tabrīz to Tehrān. Browne's works were notable for the positive image they presented of Islamic civilization. |
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