Abd-el-Hamid

Arabic name adopted by Du Couret, a French traveler, b. 1812, who in 1834 began a journey through Egypt and Aby in i a to the Red Sea, and along its shores to Cairo; became a Mohammedan, was imprisoned in Persia, returned 1847; was sent to Timbuctoo 1848; pub. 2 vols. 1855.