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A Physician on the Nile
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine YearsLibrary of Arabic Literature
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17,99 € |
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| Verlag: | NYU Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.11.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781479820054 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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<p><b>Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt</b><br><br> <i>A Physician on the Nile </i>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.<br><br> 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. <br><br><i>A Physician on the Nile</i> 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.<br><br>An English-only edition.</p>
<b>ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (Author) </b>
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<b>ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī</b> (557–629/1162–1231) was a Baghdad-born physician and scientist who wrote books on a wide range of topics, including medicine, philology, mathematics, and philosophy.
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<b>Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Foreword by) </b>
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<b>Mansoura Ez-Eldin </b>is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into more than ten languages. She is the deputy editor of the Egyptian weekly cultural magazine
<i>Akhbār al-Adab</i>.
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<b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator) </b>
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<b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith</b> is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among
<i>Newsweek</i>’s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.
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<b>ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī</b> (557–629/1162–1231) was a Baghdad-born physician and scientist who wrote books on a wide range of topics, including medicine, philology, mathematics, and philosophy.
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<b>Mansoura Ez-Eldin (Foreword by) </b>
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<b>Mansoura Ez-Eldin </b>is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into more than ten languages. She is the deputy editor of the Egyptian weekly cultural magazine
<i>Akhbār al-Adab</i>.
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<b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator) </b>
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<b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith</b> is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among
<i>Newsweek</i>’s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.
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