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An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-35, etc. By E. W. Lane. - Softcover
Title: An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-35, etc. By E. W. Lane.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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British Library
Lane, Edward;
1836.
2 vol. ; 8º.
793.e.5.
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Book Description:
Fluent in Arabic, Edward William Lane (1801–76) devoted his life's study to Egypt. This well-illustrated two-volume work was first published in 1836. Volume 2 primarily details Cairo's vibrant public space, covering drug use, games, street music and dancers, snake charmers, storytelling, celebratory festivals, and funerals.
About the Author:
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).
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- PublisherBritish Library, Historical Print Editions
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1241562806
- ISBN 13 9781241562809
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages930
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