Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia, Made During the Years 1825, -26, -27, and -28 ...American Univ in Cairo Press, 2000 - 588 pages The launching of this hitherto unpublished book by the great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, is a major publishing event. Lane 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). Yet one of his greatest works was never published: after years of labor and despite an enthusiastic reception by the publishing firm of John Murray in 1831, publication of his first book, Description of Egypt, was delayed and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891, and has only now been salvaged for publication by Dr. Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. This enormously important book, which takes the form of a journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way, will be of immense interest to both ancient and modern historians of Egypt, and will become an essential companion to his Manners and Customs. ''Jason Thompson's exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.''-Astene Newsletter, June 2002. ''Thompson, a historian at AUC, has done signal service in taking a manuscript dating from 1831 and preparing it for publication so many years later; AUC Press deserves praise for making so major a work available, and at so reasonable a price.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001. ''In all, the appearance of this major work of scholarship at this late date is a major boon to the study of Egypt's history between the pharaohs and 18280.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001. |
Table des matières
The Harbours and City of Alexandria | 3 |
The Environs of Alexandria ΙΟ | 11 |
Voyage from Alexandria to the Nile | 20 |
Physical Sketch of Egypt | 25 |
Resheed or Rosetta | 48 |
Voyage up the Branch of Resheed | 52 |
The Eastern Branch of the Nile and the adjacent districts c | 59 |
Historical Illustrations of the Topography of Musr or Cairo and its Environs | 67 |
ElMinyeh Benee Hhasan and Antinoë | 251 |
Hermopolis Magna c to Asyoot | 256 |
Asyoot c to Girga | 267 |
Girga Abydos c Dendara | 274 |
Ckinë Ckooft Ckoos c to Thebes | 285 |
Thebes | 292 |
Arment c Isna | 390 |
EilethyiaAdfoo | 398 |
Boolack | 71 |
Description of Musr or Cairo | 74 |
The Citadel of Musr or Cairo | 91 |
The Environs of Musr or Cairo | 93 |
The Mooslim Dynasties in Egypt | 98 |
History of Mohhammad Alee and of the remarkable events which have taken place in Egypt since its evacuation by the French in the year 1801 | 104 |
The Pyramids of ElGeezeh | 159 |
The Pyramids of Aboo Seer Sackckarah and Dahshoor and the site remains c of the City of Memphis | 199 |
Ordinary circumstances of the Voyage up the Nile | 215 |
From Musr to Benee Soowey f | 225 |
ElFeiyoom | 230 |
From Benee Sooweyf to ElMinyeh | 246 |
Gebel esSilsilehKom Oomboo c to Aswan | 409 |
Elephantine Aswan the Cataracts c | 417 |
Philæ and its environs | 434 |
The Nubians | 444 |
Debod and Ckurdaseh c | 462 |
Dendoor Gurf Hhoseyn Dekkeh c | 475 |
Wadee esSoobooă Hhassayeh and EdDirr | 483 |
Ibreem c to Aboo Simbil | 489 |
From Aboo Simbil to Wadee Hhalfa | 502 |
Supplement On the Ancient Egyptians | 508 |
List of Illustrations | 575 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia Edward William Lane Aucun aperçu disponible - 2019 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
18th Dynasty Ab'oo Alexandria ancient appears Arabs Arnaoo'ts Aswa'n Athor Ba'b Ba'sha boat building called canal chamber Citadel colossi columns court crude brick cubits cultivated decorated descending Description of Egypt desert Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Dynasty eastern edifice Egyptian El-Ckoor'neh El-El'fee El-Gee'zeh entrance excavated feet figures former four front granite grottoes head height Herodotus hieroglyphics inches inhabitants inscriptions inundation king Kneph Kur'nak lake Lane Lane's latter Lower Egypt Manetho Memloo'ks Memphis mentioned metropolis miles modern Mohham'mad Al'ee monuments Moos'lims mosque mounds mountains mummies Musr nearly Nile Nilometer Noo'beh Nubia obelisks Osiris painted passage Pharaoh plate portal portico principal probably propylæum Ptolemy Pyramid Rameses 2nd reign remains remarkable represented Reshee'd river rock roof rubbish ruined sculptures sheykh Soolta'n sphinxes square pillars stone Strabo temple Thebes Thothmos 3rd tomb town troops Turkish upper Upper Egypt valley village Wa'dee walls western side