Edward William Lane, 1801-1876 : the life of the pioneering Egyptologist and orientalist
Few Western scholars of the Middle East have exerted such profound influence as Edward William Lane. Laneʹs Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), which has never gone out of print, remains as a highly authoritative study of Middle Eastern society. His annotated translati...
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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| Format: | Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Edward William Lane, 1801-1876 : |b the life of the pioneering Egyptologist and orientalist / |c Jason Thompson. |
| 260 | |a Cairo ; |a New York : |b The American University in Cairo Press, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 747 p., [40] p. of plates : |b facsims., ill., map, ports. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [698]-725) and index. | ||
| 500 | |a Contents: A zealous attachment -- An eastern bridegroom -- Altogether an Arabian city -- Mansur Effendi -- A closer acquaintance with Cairo -- Never a more happy time -- Life on the Nile -- Nubia -- Hundred-gated Thebes -- Minarets and pyramids -- A second voyage to Nubia -- Nefeeseh -- Culture shock -- Description of Egypt -- Manners and costumes -- Old Musr once more -- Blackening many quires -- Perception and reality -- The great plague of 1835 --- 20. Not a mummy crosses his path -- Arabian Nights -- Scholar and man of letters -- Midlife -- An English harem in Egypt -- Harat al-Sakkayin -- The Englishwomen in Egypt -- Suq al-Qawadis -- Hastings -- Worthing -- The Arabic-English lexicon. | ||
| 520 | |a Few Western scholars of the Middle East have exerted such profound influence as Edward William Lane. Laneʹs Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), which has never gone out of print, remains as a highly authoritative study of Middle Eastern society. His annotated translation of the Arabian Nights (1839-41) retains a devoted readership. Laneʹs recently recovered and published Description of Egypt (2000) shows that he was a pioneering Egyptologist as well as orientalist. The capstone of his career, the definitive Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93), is an indispensable reference tool. Yet, despite his extraordinary influence, little was known about Lane and virtually nothing about how he did his work. Now, in the first full-length biography, Laneʹs life and accomplishments are examined in full, including his crucial years of field work in Egypt, revealing the life of a great Victorian scholar and presenting a fascinating episode in east-west encounter, interaction, and representation.--Publisher description from http://www.aucpress.com (Oct. 4, 2011) | ||
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