- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Harat al-Sakkayin
Harat al-Sakkayin
- Chapter:
- (p.518) 25 Harat al-Sakkayin
- Source:
- Edward William Lane 1801–1876
- Author(s):
Jason Thompson
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
The new house in Harat al-Sakkayin was a great improvement. It was located on the western edge of the town, close to the olive groves that replaced the high mounds of garbage that used to run along that side of Cairo. It was exposed not to the noxious effluvia of the canal, but to the refreshing northwest wind. It was well away from the Frankish parts of town and always an important consideration for Lane. He worked steadily at Harat al-Sakkayin, sitting at his customized table, reference materials ready to hand, manuscripts spread all around him as he studied and collated their contents. The general arrangement of the house — gateway, courtyard, and mundarah on the ground floor, harem and family space on the upper ones — was the same as the previous one, but it had many amenities and plenty of space for everyone.
Keywords: Harat al-Sakkayin, olive groves, Cairo, manuscripts, mundarah, harem
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index