An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 2 Volume Set: 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

Overview

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 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

ISBN-13:	9781108055253
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	910
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.78(h) x 2.40(d)

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).

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.