- 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
Nubia
Nubia
- Chapter:
- (p.140) 8 Nubia
- Source:
- Edward William Lane 1801–1876
- Author(s):
Jason Thompson
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
As the voyage of Lane continued, Nubia started at the First Cataract that contains Nubian people who were distinctive in their lands. This type of people where observed by Lane, in which he found as well the distinction of Nubia to Egypt in terms of ethnicity and language. However, the Nubian study was just part of Lane's voyage; after some time, they arrived in Wadi Halfa, where Lane spent a whole day looking around the area. Wadi Halfa was not Lanes' main destination, but the Second Cataract. Despite the unavailability of the camel which should have been used to reach the cataract, Lane walked ten miles to get there surpassing the heat of the sun. This chapter also discusses the different types of people met by Lane during this voyage.
Keywords: Nubia, First Cataract, Nubian, Wadi Halfa, Second Cataract, ethnicity, language
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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