The Medieval Nile

Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9340238
AutoresJohn W Cooper (0000-0002-5811-273X, autor correspondente), John Cooper (0000-0002-9496-7612), John P Cooper (0000-0003-3144-6710)
Ano2015
Páginas432
Data de publicação2015-01-14
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoMedieval Nile (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraAmerican University in Cairo Press (PUBLISHER • EG)
DOI10.5743/cairo/9789774166143.001.0001
OpenAlexW4244494706
ISBN9789774166143
Open LibraryOL28507512M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6

This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies. John Cooper first charts the changing geography of the Nile waterways, particularly in the Delta, from the eve of Islam to the early modern period, and logs the “rise and fall” of these waterways for natural and/or anthropogenic reasons. He then presents a new perspective on the Nile, drawing on traveler accounts and environmental data to portray the river as a uniquely challenging and sometimes dangerous navigational environment requiring extensive local knowledge by skilled and hard-working Nile navigators. Finally, he looks at how the main Delta and Red Sea ports of medieval Egypt fitted into the navigational landscape described, explaining how these ports were affected by changes occurring to the navigational landscape, and how they reflected the navigational conditions of the Nile and surrounding seas

Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Geography · Islam · Natural (archaeology · Nile delta · Period (music · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · environmental conditions · Landscape changes · Navigation · Nile river and valley · Sources · Waterways