[CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC CALENDARS OF THE FIRST FOURTEEN CENTURIES FROM THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET] Concordance des eres Musulmane et Chretienne pour les quatorze premiers siecles de l'Hegire commençant le 16 Juillet 622 et finissant le 20 Novembre 1979

M'HAMMED [MUHAMMED] BEL-KHODJA (Officier d'Academie chef de la Comptabilite de l'Administration Generale) (1869-1943).

Concours de Gouvernement Tunisien / Imprimerie Française, Tunis, AH 1314 = 1897.

COMPLETE TITLE: Concordance des eres Musulmane et Chretienne pour les quatorze premiers siecles de l'Hegire commençant le 16 Juillet 622 et finissant le 20 Novembre 1979 = Tahaffut un-necad. Bemkabelet tarihi al-hicri ve al-milad.

In modern green cloth bdg. Original wrappers mounted on front and rear boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French and Arabic. 34, 58 p. Concordance des eres Musulmane et Chretienne pour les quatorze premiers siecles de l'Hegire commençant le 16 Juillet 622 et finissant le 20 Novembre 1979 = Tahaffut un-necad. Bemkabelet tarihi al-hicri ve al-milad.

Scarce book including the correct and comparative calculations of the Muslim and Christian eras and calendars for the first fourteen centuries of the Hijri beginning on July 16, 622 and ending on November 20, 1979.

Belkhodja was a Tunisian politician. He was born into a family of the Tunisian religious aristocracy whose origins date back to the arrival of his ancestor, the Ottoman soldier Ali Khodja Al Hanafi, who came to Tunis on the occasion of the battle fought at La Goulette against the army of Charles V. An officer in the forces of Sinan Pasha, he returned to the Levant once the battle was completed.

After studying at Sadiki College and Alaoui High School, M'hammed Belkhodja joined the government editorial office in 1887 and worked in the translation section, before being assigned to the accounting department in 1902. He was appointed as a director of the official press under the reign of Naceur Bey and then as a director of protocol. In 1915, he obtained the rank of general. In 1919, he was named caid -governor in Gabès and Bizerte. Having reached retirement age, he became a government advisor until his death. During his life, he contributed to cultural life: he was among the founders of the first Tunisian news newspaper El Hadhira (La Capitale); it also helped disseminate several historical research and translations. In 1896, he was one of the founders of Khaldounia, of which he joined the management. He also took advantage of his presence at the head of the printing press to publish some of his works and writings, as well as a certain number of Tunisian manuscripts. He also participated in the North Africa conference held in Paris in 1908.

As of March 2024, only three copies can be traced in OCLC (32609462), one is in a North American library (Cambridge).