Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Original writing person/organisation:
عبد اللطيف البغدادي
ISBN:
9781479806232
Series Statement:
Library of Arabic Literature 74
Uniform Title:
Kitab al-Ifada wa-'l-itibar fi-'l-umur al-musahada wa-'l-hawadit al-muayana bi-ard Misr
Content:
Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Maps -- Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- A Physician on the Nile -- Introduction -- Part One, consisting of six chapters -- Part Two, consisting of three chapters -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor-Translator
Content:
Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA 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.A bilingual Arabic-English edition
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781479806249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī, 1162 - 1231 A physician on the Nile New York : New York University Press, 2021 ISBN 1479806242
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781479806249
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī 1162-1231
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Tagebuch
DOI:
10.18574/9781479806232
Author information:
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim 1961-
Author information:
ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī 1162-1231
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