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portada A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
288
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
Dimensiones
20.8x13.7x2 cm
Peso
0.32 kg.
ISBN13
9781479820078

A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)

ʿabd Al-La&# Al-Baghdādī (Autor) · Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Traducido por) · Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Prefacio de) · New York University Press · Tapa Blanda

A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés) - Al-Baghdādī, ʿabd Al-La&# ; Mackintosh-Smith, Tim ; Ez-Eldin, Mansoura

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Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypt's geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, including a recipe for a giant picnic pie made with three entire roast lambs and dozens of chickens. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf's text is also a pioneering work of ancient Egyptology, with detailed observations of Pharaonic monuments, sculptures, and mummies. An early and ardent champion of archaeological conservation, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf condemns the vandalism wrought by tomb-robbers and notes with distaste that Egyptian grocers price their goods with labels written on recycled mummy-wrappings. The book's second half relates his horrific eyewitness account of the great famine that afflicted Egypt in the years 597-598/1200-1202. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf was a keen observer of humanity, and he offers vivid first-hand depictions of starvation, cannibalism, and a society in moral free-fall. A Physician on the Nile contains great diversity in a small compass, distinguished by the acute, humane, and ever-curious mind of its author. It is rare to be able to hear the voice of such a man responding so directly to novelty, beauty, and tragedy. An English-only edition.

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