one of the earliest Ottoman Arab first-hand accounts of Europe, its educational system, banking, agriculture and printing press; the historian Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn considers its authenticity to be "doubtful". Khalidi was also a distinguished Arabic poet and linguist, as indicated by his surviving poetry. His other, earlier important work was Tawq al-Hamamah fi al-Nasab li Muluk al-Ajam wa al-Arab (The Ring of the Dove in the Genealogy of the Persian and Arab Kings), which is unpublished. He also penned a commentary of the seminal 13th-century Arabic grammar book Alfiyyat Ibn Malik, wrote a book on metrics, and accounts of his travels. References Bibliography 1625 deaths 17th-century Arabic poets 17th-century Arabic writers 17th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Al-Azhar University alumni Arabs from the Ottoman Empire Hanafis Ottoman Sunni Muslims People from Safed