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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
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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
