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An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Edward William Lane
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Paperback. Num Pages: 619 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, printed music items. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 839.
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane’s An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane’s approval. Lacking parts of Lane’s text and many of his original illustrations (while adding many that were not his), they were based on ... Read more
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane’s An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane’s approval. Lacking parts of Lane’s text and many of his original illustrations (while adding many that were not his), they were based on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
664
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774165603
SKU
V9789774165603
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Edward William Lane
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). ... Read more
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