Edward William Lane

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians - Volume 2

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1836, this two-volume work describes Egypt's climate, politics, religion, street life and customs in the 1830s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9781108055246
• ISBN-10: 1108055249
• Artikelnr.: 37458581

Autorenporträt

Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). In 2000, his long-forgotten manuscript Description of Egypt was published for the first time by the AUC Press. Jason Thompson is currently a visiting professor at Bates College. He is the editor of Lane's Description of Egypt (AUC Press, 2000) and the author of A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present ( AUC Press, 2008) and Edward William Lane, 1801-76 ( AUC Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Industry
2. Use of tobacco, coffee, hemp, opium, etc.
3. The bath
4. Games
5. Music
6. Public dancers
7. Serpent-charmers, and performers of legerdemain tricks, etc.
8. Public recitations of romances
9. Public recitations of romances (cont.)
10. Public recitations of romances (cont.)
11. Periodical public festivals, etc.
12. Periodical public festivals, etc. (cont.)
13. Periodical public festivals, etc. (cont.)
14. Private festivities, etc.
15. Death, and funeral rites
Supplement
Index.