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A Physician on the Nile
eBook - A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years, Library of Arabic Literature
ISBN/EAN: 9781479806256
Umbreit-Nr.: 1200840
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Erschienen am 06.04.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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- Zusatztext
- <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 Abd al-Laf al-Baghdd, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypts geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, including a recipe for a giant picnic pie made with three entire roast lambs and dozens of chickens. Abd al-Lafs 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, Abd al-Laf 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 books second half relates his horrific eyewitness account of the great famine that afflicted Egypt in the years 597598/12001202. Abd al-Laf 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>A bilingual Arabic-English edition.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Abd al-Laf al-Baghdd (Author)</b><br><b>Abd al-Laf al-Baghdd</b> (557629/11621231) was a Baghdad-born physician and scientist who wrote books on a wide range of topics, including medicine, philology, mathematics, and philosophy.<br><br><b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Edited and Translated by)</b><br><b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith</b> is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baah, 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.<br><br>