An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 2 Volume Set
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 2 Volume Set
£78.00
GBPEdward William Lane (1801–76) published this work in two volumes in 1836. Resident in the country for many years, and fluent in Arabic, he devoted his life's study to Egypt. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Institut de France, Lane translated One Thousand and One Nights and selections from the Koran. His major work was an Arabic-English lexicon; a monumental undertaking, he was working on the sixth volume when he died. Volume 1 of Modern Egyptians offers detailed accounts of climate, housing, education, domestic life, religion, law, government, language, literature, sciences and magic. Volume 2 focuses principally upon Cairo's vibrant public space, covering drug use, games, street music and dancers, among much else. A bestseller in its own day, this well-illustrated work remains a key text for students of nineteenth-century Egypt and the Arab world.
Product details
February 2013Multiple copy pack
9781108055253
910 pages
223 × 145 × 61 mm
1.05kg
107 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Personal characteristics and dress of the Mooslim Egyptians
- 2. Infancy and early education
- 3. Religion and laws
- 4. Government
- 5. Domestic life
- 6. Domestic life (cont.)
- 7. Domestic life (cont.)
- 8. Common usages of society
- 9. Language, literature, and science
- 10. Superstitions
- 11. Superstitions (cont.)
- 12. Magic, astrology, and alchymy
- 13. Character. Volume 2:
- 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.
