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Racconto D'egitto by Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
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9781789697827
Published:
22 Oct 2020
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
218 pages
Dimensions:
235x155x12mm
Weight:
0.478kgs
This edition provides the first Italian translation of ?Abd al-Laṭif al-Bagdadi's fascinating account of Egypt in the 12th-13th centuries. The translation is accompanied by a full transcription of the original Arabic manuscript as well as essential and insightful commentary and analysis.
Kitab al-?ifadah wa al-?i?tibar fi al-?umur al-mušahadah wa al-ḥawadiṯ al-mu?ayanah bi-arḍ Miṣr, by ?Abd al-Laṭif al-Bagdadi (1162-1231 AD) is a fascinating work; it represents one of the best known and most important manuscripts concerning Egypt during the period between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD. The author, through his gaze and with a clear and shrewd use of language and style, describes several characteristic aspects of the Nile country: the landscape, the animals, the plants, the monuments, the boats, the peculiar dishes, without forgetting the effects of the famine, or the misery caused by the ailments and hunger that hit the country between 1200 and 1202 AD.
Translated into German (1790), Latin (1800), French (1810), and more recently into English (1965), there was, until now, still no translation into Italian of this masterful work. This omission prompted the authors to work over a period of several years on the present volume which, in addition to providing the first Italian translation (accompanied by the transcription of the original Arabic manuscript), provides essential and necessary commentary notes aimed at explaining different passages of the manuscript. Some preliminary chapters also attempt to focus on themes, the author and his philosophy in order to provide the reader with a wider image of the conceptions of the period in which he lived and what this description represented and still represents: a masterpiece of realism which continues to stir the imagination in the modern age.
Translated into German (1790), Latin (1800), French (1810), and more recently into English (1965), there was, until now, still no translation into Italian of this masterful work. This omission prompted the authors to work over a period of several years on the present volume which, in addition to providing the first Italian translation (accompanied by the transcription of the original Arabic manuscript), provides essential and necessary commentary notes aimed at explaining different passages of the manuscript. Some preliminary chapters also attempt to focus on themes, the author and his philosophy in order to provide the reader with a wider image of the conceptions of the period in which he lived and what this description represented and still represents: a masterpiece of realism which continues to stir the imagination in the modern age.
About the Author: Ahmed F. Kzzo è un archeologo specializzato in antico Medio Oriente. Dottore di ricerca presso l'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", ha partecipato a vari progetti archeologici, tra cui scavi ad al-Bimarestan al-Nuri (Aleppo), Ebla (Siria) e Çatalhöyük (Turchia). È stato Post-doc presso l'Università di Berna ed è attualmente membro del Columbia Global Center Amman (Columbia University). ; Nikola D. Bellucci, dottore magistrale in Filologia classica (Th. Papirologia) e dottore magistrale in Archeologia e Culture del Mondo Antico (Th. Egittologia) presso l'Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, è oggi PhD f. presso l'Università di Berna. Autore di numerosi articoli scientifici, è anche membro di alcuni tra i maggiori istituti scientifici internazionali d'antichità.
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