Description of Egypt

Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia

Edward William Lane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

786 Seiten

2020
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-934-2 (ISBN)

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The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801–76) 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 in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John Murray. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane’s widow in 1891, and was salvaged for publication as a hardcover book, in 2000, by Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. Now available in paperback, this 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 interest to both ancient and modern historians of Egypt, and is an essential companion to his Manners and Customs.

Jason Thompson is the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, Edward William Lane (AUC Press, 2010), and Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology (3 vols.; AUC Press, 2015, 2018). He is the editor of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003).

Contents
Map of Egypt ix
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction 1
Part One: Egyptology and Pharaonism to 1930
1. Egyptology and Pharaonism in Egypt before Tutankhamun 19
2. Nationalizing Tutankhamun 51
3. Western Egyptology in Egypt in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 81
4. Egyptian Egyptology and Pharaonism in the Wake of Tutankhamun, 1922–1930 109
Part Two: Tourism and Islamic, Coptic, and Greco–Roman Archaeologies
5. Consuming Antiquity: Western Tourism between Two Revolutions, 1919–1952 137
6. In the Shadow of Egyptology: Islamic Art and Archaeology to 1952 167
7. Copts and Archaeology: Sons of Saint Mark / Sons of the Pharaohs 197
8. Alexandria, Egypt, and the Greco–Roman Heritage 229
Part Three: Egyptology and Pharaonism to Nasser’s Revolution
9. Contesting Egyptology in the 1930s 263
10. Pharaonism and Its Challengers in the 1930s and 1940s 295
11. Egyptology in the Twilight of Empire and Monarchy, 1939–1952 329
12. Conclusion 355
Notes 369
Bibliography 449
Index 481

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2019
Zusatzinfo	158 bw illus
Verlagsort	Cairo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	977-416-934-4 / 9774169344
ISBN-13	978-977-416-934-2 / 9789774169342
Zustand	Neuware