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Arabic Proverbs - Or the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Illustrated from Their Proverbial Sayings Current at Cairo, Translated and Explained (Hardcover, New ed of 1830 ed)
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Arabic Proverbs - Or the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Illustrated from Their Proverbial Sayings Current at Cairo, Translated and Explained (Hardcover, New ed of 1830 ed)
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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784 - 1817) was born in Lausanne,
Switzerland. In 1806 he first travelled with an African Association
expedition to explore the interior of Africa. Three years later he
was in North Africa, where disguised as an Arab, he travelled
widely, becoming so fluent in Arabic dialects and customs that he
passed as an Arab merchant, travelling in 1814 to Mecca, a city
forbidden to non-Muslims. Arabic Provers, first published in 1830,
is a collection of proverbial sayings, originally compiled by
Sheref Addin Ibn Asad, in Cairo, at the beginning of the eighteenth
century. Burckhardt translated and annotated these sayings in the
hope that they might "interest and gratify the Orientalist". The
work provides an intriguing insight into the manners of customs of
Egyptians two-hundred years ago.
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