Tawfiq Canaan

ABOUT TAWFIQ CANAAN

Palestinian scientist, doctor, and ethnographer who studied folklore and researched the validity of superstition. He collected over 1,400 amulets and talismanic objects during his career.

He was a medical officer for the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

He published two books on the troubles in Palestine.

He was born and raised in Palestine, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire.

He was a contemporary of Khalil al-Sakakini , the anti-semite.