A physician on the Nile : a description of Egypt and journal of the famine years /
A 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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | Parallel Arabic text and English translation. |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Library of Arabic literature.
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Table of Contents:
- General characteristics of Egypt
- Characteristic plants and trees of Egypt
- Characteristic features of the animal world in Egypt
- A description of the ancient Egyptian monuments examined by the author
- Unusual Egyptian buildings and boats examined by the author
- The Nile and the manner of its annual rises, with an explanation of the causes of this phenomenon and the laws of nature governing it
- The events of the year 597 [1200-01]
- The events of the year 598 [1201-2]