Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo. Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's. The Garden of Ismail's Praise. CAI 35.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 23503 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 192 p., 129 p. in English, 62 p. in Arabic, paperback. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707496 |
The extended introduction – a microhistory of Khedivial Egypt - explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). The book contains the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of his manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This was a universal, chronographic history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction, in order to praise the governor Khedive Ismail (r. 1863-1879). It advocates a unique solution to computing the period of primordial history, before the Deluge, in the age of steam and print. Al-Naggari's alternative Nahda voice is available for the first time in this edition.
The extended introduction – a microhistory of Khedivial Egypt - explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). The book contains the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of his manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This was a universal, chronographic history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction, in order to praise the governor Khedive Ismail (r. 1863-1879). It advocates a unique solution to computing the period of primordial history, before the Deluge, in the age of steam and print. Al-Naggari's alternative Nahda voice is available for the first time in this edition.