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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1995. Published a few years after the author's
death this text offers explanatory notes for his translation of The
Thousand and One Nights. The editor Lane had utilized as the main
basis for this the Arabic text printed at the press of Biilaq in
the suburbs of Cairo established by the Pasha Muhammad 'Ali, but
had enriched it by a copious commentary. Since the stories making
up the Nights illustrate almost the whole gamut of public and
settled domestic life in the Arab Middle Ages, from the opulent
surroundings of Caliphs and Sultans to the humblest dwellings of
petty tradesmen and bazaar artisans, Lane was able to construct on
these foundations a remarkably detailed picture of society as it
functioned in the urban centres of Mediaeval Islam.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane
(1801-76) 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). Yet in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works,
Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropped, mainly
for financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John Murray. The
manuscript was sold to the British Library by Lane's widow in 1891,
and was salvaged for publication as a hardcover book, in 2000, by
Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years after its completion. Now
available in paperback, this book, which takes the form of a
journey through Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all
the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored
along the way, will be of interest to both ancient and modern
historians of Egypt, and is an essential companion to his Manners
and Customs.
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 what should have
been ephemeral editions, published long after the author's death.
Meanwhile, the definitive fifth edition of 1860, the result of a
quarter century of Lane's corrections, reconsiderations, and
additions, long ago disappeared from bookstore shelves. Now the
1860 edition of Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians is
available again, with a useful general introduction by Jason
Thompson. Lane's greatest work enters the twenty-first century in
precisely the form that he wanted.
Edward William Lane (1801-1876), Arabic scholar, first went to
Egypt in 1825 for the sake of his health. He made several voyages
up the Nile and came to speak Arabic fluently, even adopting
Egyptian manners and dress. He was therefore perfectly equipped to
begin work on an intimate study of Egyptian life. His other works
include a translation of the Thousand and One Nights, and an
exhaustive thesaurus of the Arabic language. Manners and Customs of
the Modern Egyptians was first published in two volumes in 1836. It
remains a standard work on the subject. Every page contains some
item of essential information regarding Arab life: from religion,
law and literature, through to domestic matters, art and
superstition. The edition is reproduced in facsimile from the 1896
edition, and it retains the abundance of rich and usual photographs
and engravings.
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