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Description of Egypt
The launching of this hitherto unpublished book by the great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76), a name known to almost everyone in all the many fields of Middle East studies, is a major publishing event. Lane was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet one of his greatest works was never published: after years of labor and despite an enthusiastic reception by the publishing firm of John Murray in 1831, publication of his first book, Descriptio...
Life of Edward William Lane (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Life of Edward William Lane IN editing the Sixth Part of my great-uncle's Arabic Lexicon I thought it well to prefix to it a memoir of the author. From this the present edition is reprinted, with only a few verbal changes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Edward William Lane, 1801-1876
Few Western scholars of the Middle East have exerted such profound influence as Edward William Lane. Lane's Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), which has never gone out of print, remains as a highly authoritative study of Middle Eastern society. His annotated translation of the Arabian Nights (1839-41) retains a devoted readership. Lane's recently recovered and published Description of Egypt (2000) shows that he was a pioneering Egyptologist as well as orientalist. The capstone of his career, the definitive Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93), is an indispensable reference tool. Yet, despite his extraordinary influence, little was known about Lane and virtually nothing about how he did his work. Now, in the first full-length biography, Lane's life and accomplishments are examined in full, including his crucial years of field work in Egypt, revealing the life of a great Victorian scholar and presenting a fascinating episode in east-west encounter, interaction, and representation.
Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was Britain's most renowned scholar of the modern Middle East. Possessed of artistic, scholarly, and literary talent, Lane travelled to Egypt in the early nineteenth century, when it was first opened to Western travellers, where he participated both in the development of orientalist studies and in the nascent discipline of Egyptology. Returning to Britain, he published enormously influential works such as Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836) and the monumental Arabic-English Lexicon (1863) - both continuously in print since their original publications - and a major translation of the Arabian Nights (1839).Lane's life was one of high ideals, goals, struggles against adversity, and great accomplishments intermixed with personal tragedy. Its story reveals many previously unknown aspects of Victorian and Egyptian life, and of the encounter between the two.
Life of Edward William Lane
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... BURCERARDTS PILGRIMAGE. 59 of which the following is a copy.--" Praise be to God, who hath made the pilgrimage to be rightly accomplished, and the intention rewarded, and sin forgiven. To proceed.--The respected hagg Ibraheem hath performed the pilgrimage, according to the divine ordinances, and accomplished all the incumbent ordinances of the Prophet, completely and perfectly. And God is the best of witnesses. The halt was on the 9th day of the month of El-Heggeh, in ...
Edward William Lane
Study on Arabic-English lexicon of Edward William Lane, 1801-1876.
