This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt (Barcelona, October 2018) showcasing the most recent pharmaceutical and medical ...studies on human remains and organic and plant material from ancient Egypt, together with discussions on textual and iconographical evidence.
Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, ...most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. Peter Gran's The Persistence of Orientalism is the first book to take stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship is produced to perpetuate it. Gran surveys the history of American studies of Modern Egypt, examining three central issues: the periodization of modern professional knowledge in the US in the 1890s, the contemporary identity of orientalism and its critique, and the close connection between Oriental Despotism and the dominant formulation of American identity found in American Studies and in American life. Reinvigorating the conversation on the historiography of modern Egypt, this volume will influence a new generation of scholars studying the Middle East and beyond.
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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab ...Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike.
Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent scholarship on the communal, ...judicial, economic, lingual, familial, and spiritual aspects of Jewish life medieval Islamic Egypt.
Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing
the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine presents the
proceedings of a conference held in Athens between 1st-3rd February
2017. The ...Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, in close collaboration
with the Writing & Scripts Centre of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
and the University of Alexandria, organized the conference
concerning the ancient Egyptian religion, Coptic Christianity and
Environment. Thus, the endeavour was to sense the Cosmos, through a
virtual Einfahlung, as a manifestation of the Divine and
the manifestations of the Divine in the environmental, cosmic and
societal spheres. Egyptians were particularly pious and they
considered their surroundings and the Universe itself as a creation
and a direct immanence of the Divine, being also convinced that
they were congenital parts of the Cosmos and adoring their
divinities, who were also personifications of environmental and/or
cosmic aspects and forces. There are many examples (epigraphic,
textual, monumental, & c.) corroborating these relations and
that ancient Egyptian piety was rooted on the bi-faceted texture of
the ancient Egyptian religion, containing a solar and an astral
component: the former was related to Rec, while the latter was
related to Osiris. The conference took place with participations of
a pleiade of Egyptologists, archaeologists, archaeoastronomers,
theologians, historians and other scholars from more than 15
countries all over the world. In this unique volume are published
most of the contributions of the delegates who sent their papers
for peer-reviewing, enriching the bibliographic resources with
original and interesting articles. This publication of more than
580 pages containing 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2
abstracts) on the ancient Egyptian religion, Environment and the
Cosmos, fruitfully connects many interdisciplinary approaches and
Egyptology, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, geography, botany,
zoology, ornithology, theology and history.
Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of Ancient Egypt in the modern ...imagination, breaking down conventional disciplinary boundaries between fields such as History, Classics, Art History, Fashion, Film, Archaeology, Egyptology, and Literature to further a nuanced understanding of ancient Egypt in cultures stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day, emphasising how some of the various meanings of ancient Egypt to modern people have traversed time and media. Divided into three themes, the chapters scrutinise different aspects of the use of ancient Egypt in a variety of media, looking in particular at the ways in which Egyptology as a discipline has influenced representations of Egypt, ancient Egypt’s associations with death and mysticism, as well as connections between ancient Egypt and gendered power. The diversity of this study aims to emphasise both the multiplicity and the patterning of popular responses to ancient Egypt, as well as the longevity of this phenomenon and its relevance today.
What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? In addressing these questions, Michael ...Barnett develops a novel theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977.Confronting the Costs of Waraddresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics, and Middle Eastern studies.
This book explores the interaction between animals, plants, and humans in ancient Egypt. It draws together different aspects of the bioarchaeology of Egypt: flora, fauna, and human remains. These ...come from sites throughout the country from Alexandria to Aswan, as well as material from museum basements. The material presented here includes the results of new and previously unpublished excavations in the Delta and Thebes, in-depth studies of different species of animal mummies, an analysis of animal cults, tentative identifications of wild dogs in Egyptian art, a variety of diseases from which the ancient Egyptians suffered, studies on human remains using traditional as well as state-of-the-art technologies, and the different foods that formed the diet of the ancient Egyptians. The studies blend traditional methodologies, often deployed in novel ways, such as examining the pelage of lions, as well as new 3D technologies used in the analyses of bioarchaeological material. The results of these studies deepen our knowledge of ancient Egypt, its inhabitants, and their interaction with their environment. The present volume is the proceedings of the Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt & the Second International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (Cairo, 2019).
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