Mohamed Shafik Gabrallah

Mohammad Shawqi Girbal (1894-1961) was an Egyptian historian who served as a professor at Cairo University and was the first Egyptian to hold a chair in the history department of the Faculty of Arts. He worked in several ministries, founded the Egyptian Society for Historical Studies and the Egyptian Museum, and was a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo from 1957 until his death, as well as the Egyptian Scientific Association.

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