Name: A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (Library of Arabic Literature) (en Inglés)
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Author: ʿAbd Al-LaṬĪf Al-Baghdādī
ISBN: 9781479806249

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

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Nyu Press

Autor

ʿAbd Al-LaṬĪf Al-Baghdādī

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

300

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781479806249

Categorías

Egipto
Historia de oriente próximo

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

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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.