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Arabic Proverbs - Or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (Paperback)
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Arabic Proverbs - Or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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John Lewis Burckhardt (1784 1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best
remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in
modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African
Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In
preparation for this journey, for which he needed to pass as a
Muslim, Burckhardt spent two years exploring and studying Arabic
and Islamic law in Aleppo, before travelling widely in Arabia and
Egypt. This volume, first published posthumously in 1830 by the
African Association, contains a collection of Arabic proverbs. The
main group derives from an eighteenth-century collection, to which
Burckhardt added proverbs he had heard during his residence in
Cairo. Given in both Cairene Arabic and English, with Burckhardt's
explanations of the context in which they were used, these proverbs
provide a valuable source for the language and culture of
nineteenth-century Cairo.
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