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Author(s):	?Abd al-La?if al-Baghdadi

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1479806242
Pages:	300	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt

A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician Abd al-Laf al-Baghdd, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypts geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, including a recipe for a giant picnic pie made with three entire roast lambs and dozens of chickens. Abd al-Lafs text is also a pioneering work of ancient Egyptology, with detailed observations of Pharaonic monuments, sculptures, and mummies. An early and ardent champion of archaeological conservation, Abd al-Laf condemns the vandalism wrought by tomb-robbers and notes with distaste that Egyptian grocers price their goods with labels written on recycled mummy-wrappings.

The books second half relates his horrific eyewitness account of the great famine that afflicted Egypt in the years 597598/12001202. Abd al-Laf was a keen observer of humanity, and he offers vivid first-hand depictions of starvation, cannibalism, and a society in moral free-fall.

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