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Book Synopsis Upper Egypt by : Nicholas S. Hopkins
Download or read book Upper Egypt written by Nicholas S. Hopkins and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper Egypt (the Sa'id) is often portrayed as a source of disruption and unpredictability in the broader Egyptian system. This book corrects that image by laying out the order in the meaningful life of Upper Egyptians.
Book Synopsis Elijah in Upper Egypt by : David Frankfurter
Download or read book Elijah in Upper Egypt written by David Frankfurter and published by Trinity Press International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant contribution to our knowledge of Egyptian Christianity in the late third century includes discussion of-the Apocalypse of Elijah as religious literature;-the Egyptian provenance of the document;-its social and historical context;-a complete translation."Frankfurter's analysis of The Apocalypse of Elijah is a detailed and creative piece of work. His mastery of literary theory and the social-scientific method is evident throughout, and the union of the two methods in this work is impressive." -James E. Goehring, Mary Washington College"This book is a remarkable piece of work. Frankfurter makes a convincing case for the use of native Egyptian prophetic traditions in the Apocalypse of Elijah." -Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara>
Book Synopsis The Red Monastery Church by : Elizabeth S. Bolman
Download or read book The Red Monastery Church written by Elizabeth S. Bolman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark, interdisciplinary publication of the Red Monastery church, the most important Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, highlights its remarkable and newly conserved paintings and architectural sculpture.
Book Synopsis The Fellāhīn of Upper Egypt: Their Religious, Social and Industrial Life with Special Reference to Survivals from Ancient Times by : Winifred Susan Blackman
Download or read book The Fellāhīn of Upper Egypt: Their Religious, Social and Industrial Life with Special Reference to Survivals from Ancient Times written by Winifred Susan Blackman and published by London : Cass. This book was released on 1968 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt by : Vivant Denon
Download or read book Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt written by Vivant Denon and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Hans Alexander Winkler Publisher :American University in Cairo Press ISBN 13 :1617972592 Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (179 download)
Book Synopsis Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt by : Hans Alexander Winkler
Download or read book Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt written by Hans Alexander Winkler and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who came to seek help. In an intense study, Winkler lays out the construction of the world shared by the rural people, with its saints and pilgrims, snake charmers and wandering holy men, all under the overarching power of God. Winkler's book was ahead of its time in analyzing a single institution in its social context, and in showing the debates and disagreements about the meaning of such strange events. "This multilayered study from the 1930s was precocious in its method and conclusions, and thus it retains its relevance today not only for Egyptian folklore but also for the history of anthropology in Egypt." from the Introduction by Nicholas S. Hopkins
Book Synopsis Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt by : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Download or read book Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Veiling Architecture by : Ahmed Abdel-Gawad
Download or read book Veiling Architecture written by Ahmed Abdel-Gawad and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using photographs and architectural drawings Ahmed Abdel-Gawad presents a wide range of the exuberant, intricate, and largely unknown designs of surviving domestic buildings from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries in the Nile Valley and desert oases south of Cairo.
Book Synopsis Way Down in Upper Egypt by : Jonna Castle
Download or read book Way Down in Upper Egypt written by Jonna Castle and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Way Down in Upper Egypt" is a collection of colorful and intimate stories about the people, culture and customs in this region of Egypt, where life continues much as it has for the past hundred or so years. Why is this unique area called Upper Egypt when it's down in the southernmost part of the country? Why is marriage to a first cousin the most desirable and sought after, why don't automobile drivers turn on the lights after dark and what it means when a man puts his "tails in his teeth." Why must a man enter the house backwards where there'a a newborn baby? Meet colorful friends like Om Mustafa, whose arranged marriage took place at age eleven. What saved the author when a five foot crocodile came at her full speed with mouth wide open and how she escaped after making the carriage driver angry enough to want to kill her.
Download or read book The Buried written by Peter Hessler and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt’s past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians: political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants.
Author :Kenneth Stuart Sandford Publisher :Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures ISBN 13 : Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide by : Kenneth Stuart Sandford
Download or read book Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide written by Kenneth Stuart Sandford and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 1929 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent geologists to whom this study of one of the most perplexing problems of Nile Valley structure is due have made an extremely significant contribution. Rising and falling lake levels within the Faiyum during relatively recent times, dynastic or at most Neolithic, have heretofore monopolized attention. The present writers have instead traced the geologic history of that region back beyond the origin of the Faiyum depression itself. The Nile Valley as a whole has been investigated as a background for this detailed study, and will itself be treated more at length in a later volume (see OIP 17, ed.). [From The New Past,1931, p. 24].
Book Synopsis Imagined Empires by : Zeinab Abul-Magd
Download or read book Imagined Empires written by Zeinab Abul-Magd and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating local elites in the south of Egypt. Abul-Magd vividly narrates stories of sabotage, banditry, flight, and massive uprisings of peasants and laborers, to challenge myths of imperial competence. The book depicts forms of subaltern discontent against "imagined empires" that failed in achieving their professed goals and brought about environmental crises to Qina province. As the book deconstructs myths about early modern and modern world hegemons, it reveals that imperial modernity and its market economy altered existing systems of landownership, irrigation, and trade— leading to such destructive occurrences as the plague and cholera epidemics. The book also deconstructs myths in Egyptian historiography, highlighting the problems of a Cairo-centered idea of the Egyptian nation-state. The book covers the Ottoman, French, Muhammad Ali’s, and the British informal and formal empires. It alludes to the U.S. and its failed market economy in Upper Egypt, which partially resulted in Qina’s participation in the 2011 revolution. Imagined Empires is a timely addition to Middle Eastern and world history.
Book Synopsis Upper Egypt by : Nicholas S. Hopkins
Download or read book Upper Egypt written by Nicholas S. Hopkins and published by Aarhus University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper Egypt: Life along the Nile describes life in the southern part of Egypt in the twentieth century. The book represents some of the most recent social and cultural research in the area, and it focuses on aspects of Egypt that tend to disappear in the background of the attractions that tourists see. The authors have done field research in Upper Egypt. This is one of the few recent books contributing to our understanding of this neglected region, which is based on first hand knowledge of local conditions. The book contains articles on agriculture and irrigation, language, religious life among Muslims and Christians, Sufism, customary law, crafts and craftsmen, and tribalism. Nicolas S. Hopkins is Professor at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo.
Author :Saint Paphnutius (anchorite) Publisher :Cistercian Studies Series ISBN 13 :9780879075408 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (754 download)
Book Synopsis Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt ; And, The Life of Onnophrius by : Saint Paphnutius (anchorite)
Download or read book Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt ; And, The Life of Onnophrius written by Saint Paphnutius (anchorite) and published by Cistercian Studies Series. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert stood in stark opposition to the oikoumene, the inhabited world of the fourth century. Not because the world was a bad place, but because the desert 'understood geographically, religiously, spiritually, and mystically ' was the harsh, uncomprising place where the Christian could be perfected by God. Far from the Christian metropolis of Alexandria, removed from the well-known and much 'visited monastic settlements of the Thebaid, and infinitely remote from Rome, lay the garrison towns of Aswan and Philae. There Christians and pagans coexisted. Integral to the christian community on this desert frontier of Empire were the local monks 'ascetics, intercessors, contemplatives, and miracle workers.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Bodmer Papyri by : James M. Robinson
Download or read book The Story of the Bodmer Papyri written by James M. Robinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction by : Geraldine Pinch
Download or read book Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction written by Geraldine Pinch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme.
Book Synopsis Journey Through the Afterlife by : John H. Taylor
Download or read book Journey Through the Afterlife written by John H. Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
