Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763–1828) was a scholar, historian, and poet at the court of Amir Bashir Shihab II.
[1] He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in modern-day Lebanon).
[2] He accompanied Napoleon's expedition in Egypt and wrote an account of it, which was translated in French by Desgranges as Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte (published in 1839).
[2] Gaston Wiet has published his memoirs as Chronique d'Égypte, 1798–1804.
Al-Turk died, blind, in Dayr al-Qamar.