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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo: Mustafa Salama Al-Naggari's. the Garden of Ismail's Praise

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo: Mustafa Salama Al-Naggari's. the Garden of Ismail's Praise

Mestyan, Adam

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Series: Cahiers Des Annales Islamologiques, Book 35

IslamGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 2724707494
ISBN13: 9782724707496
Publisher: Institut Francais D'Archeologie Orientale
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.41
Language: English
How old is the world? This question was a central problem for Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the face of the new scientific discoveries in the nineteenth century. This book introduces the answer from a Muslim point of view, outside of official institutions. The extended introduction - a microhistory in the Middle East - explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). Next, A. Mestyan provides the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of al-Naggari's manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This is a universal history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction to praise the governor Khedive Ismail (r. 1863-1879). The author 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.

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