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An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Edward William Lane

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians By Edward William Lane

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane


Summary

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.

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Summary

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34, and -35, Partly from Notes Made during a Former Visit to that Country in the Years 1825, -26, -27 and -28 by Edward William Lane

Edward 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 2 of Modern Egyptians primarily details Cairo's vibrant public space, covering drug use, games, street music and dancers, as well as snake charmers, storytelling, celebratory festivals, and funerals. It also examines Egyptian industry and the Jewish and Copt minorities. A bestseller in its own day, this well-illustrated work remains a key text for students of nineteenth-century Egypt and the Arab world.

Table of Contents

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.

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NLS9781108055246
9781108055246
1108055249
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: Written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34, and -35, Partly from Notes Made during a Former Visit to that Country in the Years 1825, -26, -27 and -28 by Edward William Lane
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2013-02-21
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