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Egyptology Preface 8 Acknowledgments 12 Contents 14 List of Figures 16 Abbreviations and Notes 18 Conventions of Transliteration 20 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 22 CHAPTER 2 THE MAKING OF AN INTERPRETATIO ARABICA OF ANCIENT EGYPT 30 CHAPTER 3 TREASURE HUNTING 52 CHAPTER 4 MEDIEVAL ARAB ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS AND DESCRIPTIONS 66 CHAPTER 5 MEDIEVAL ARAB ATTEMPTS TO DECIPHER ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCRIPTS 78 CHAPTER 6 MEDIEVAL ARABIC CONCEPTS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION 96 CHAPTER 7 EGYPTIAN MUMMIA, MUMMIFICATION AND BURIAL PRACTICES IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC SOURCES 116 CHAPTER 8 EGYPTIAN SCIENCE IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC SOURCES 130 CHAPTER 9 EGYPTIAN KINGSHIP AND STATE ADMINISTRATION 142 CHAPTER 10 CONCLUSIONS 160 FIGURES 166 APPENDIX 1 BIOGRAPHIES OF ARAB WRITERS 182 APPENDIX 2 BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT USED BY AL-IDRISI 204 APPENDIX 3 PRIMARY ARABIC SOURCES 206 BIBLIOGRAPHY 216 INDEX 248

Author

Okasha El Daly

Published

2019

Language

EN