Abd-El-Hamid, the Arabic name adopted by Du Couret, a French traveller, on his becoming a Mohammedan. He was born in 1812 at Hüningen, in Alsace, travelled from 1834 to 1847 in the East, was sent in 1848 on a mission to Timbuctoo, a report of which appeared in 1853 (Memoire a Napoleon III.), and published in I 1855 the story of his Arabic pilgrimages (Me-j dine et la Mekke, 3 vols.), which was worked up by Alexandre Dumas in his Pelerinage de Hadji Abd-el-Hamid Bey (2 vols., 1855).