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Arabic Proverbs - The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Or the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Illustrated from Their ... Current at Cairo, Translated and Explained - Hardcover

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig

 
9780700700196: Arabic Proverbs - The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Or the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Illustrated from Their ... Current at Cairo, Translated and Explained

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Book Description

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was a Swiss explorer who explored Arabia and the Middle East in the guise of a Muslim. This volume, first published in 1830, contains a collection of Cairene Arabic proverbs translated by Burckhardt, providing a valuable source for the language of contemporary Cairo.

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