Niqula al-Turk

Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763–1828) was a scholar, historian, and poet at the court of Amir Bashir Shihab II.^[1] He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in modern-day Lebanon).^[2] He accompanied Napoleon's expedition in Egypt and wrote an account of it, which was translated in French by Desgranges as Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte (published in 1839).^[2] Gaston Wiet has published his memoirs as Chronique d'Égypte, 1798–1804. Al-Turk died, blind, in Dayr al-Qamar.^[2]

His daughter, Warda al Turk (1797–1873), was also a poet.