Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo . Mustafa Salama al-Naggari’s. The Garden of Ismail’s Praise. CAI 35. Egypte les prérogatives et la place

les prérogatives et la place qui leur reviennent

le Musée Unterlinden à Colmar consacre une exposition inédite à Yan Pei-Ming

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de la philologie à l’histoire de l’art ou l’histoire des religions

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo . Mustafa Salama al-Naggari’s. The Garden of Ismail’s Praise. CAI 35. Egypte les prérogatives et la placeThe 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