Editing Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (section)

===Translation===
Al-Baghdādī's Arabic manuscript was discovered in 1665 by the English [[oriental studies|orientalist]] [[Edward Pococke]] and is preserved in the [[Bodleian Library]].<ref name="EB1911"/> Pococke published the Arabic manuscript in the 1680s. His son, Edward Pococke the Younger, translated the work into [[Latin]], although he was only able to publish less than half of his work. [[Thomas Hunt (professor)|Thomas Hunt]] attempted to publish Pococke's complete translation in 1746, although his attempt was unsuccessful.{{sfn|Toomer|1996|p=272-273}} Pococke's complete Latin translation was eventually published by [[Joseph White (professor)|Joseph White]] of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in 1800.<ref>{{cite book | last1=al-Baghdādī | first1=M.D.A.L. | last2=Hyde | first2=T. | last3=Pococke | first3=E. | last4=White | first4=J. | author5=Oxford University Press | title=Abdollatiphi Historiæ Ægypti compendium,: Arabice et Latine | publisher=Typis academicis, impensis editoris; prostat venalis apud J. Cooke, Hanwell et Parker, Oxonii; J. White, Fleet Street; D. Bremner, Strand; et R. Faulder, Bond Street, Londini. | year=1800 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTxbAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> The work was then translated into [[French language|French]], with valuable notes, by [[Silvestre de Sacy]] in 1810.{{sfn|Toomer|1996|p=275}}<ref>{{cite book | last1=al-Baghdd | first1=M.D.A.L. | last2=de Sacy | first2=A.I.S. |author-link2=Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy | title=Relation de l'Égypte | publisher=Imprimerie impériale, chez Dreuttel et Würtz | year=1810 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dZQAAAAcAAJ | language=fr}}</ref>