- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index
The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta
The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta
- Chapter:
- (p.29) 3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta
- Source:
- The Medieval Nile
- Author(s):
John P. Cooper
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter seeks to understand the geography of the Nile Delta in the centuries before the Arab conquest of Egypt in the mid-7th Century A.D in order to establish a baseline against which to compare subsequent change in the navigational geography of the Nile Delta. It examines the Nile descriptions of Herodotus, Pseudo-Scylax, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny, and others, and assesses their potential in reconstructing ancient Nile Delta geographies in the contemporary landscape. It also assesses the contributions of early cartography in the form of the Geography of Ptolemy Claudius, and the Madaba and Peutinger maps of the Nile Delta.
Keywords: Egypt, Nile, Delta, Geography, Cartography, Greco-Roman
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index
