Egypt 94

Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that “the greatest man who ever lived was Jul……続きを見る

“Her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the ……続きを見る

Even in his time, Julius Caesar was in many ways larger than life, and because of his legacy as virtual founder of the Roman Empire, much of what was written about – and by – him during his life and……続きを見る

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ Legends of the Ancient World serie……続きを見る

En dehors de l’État, les waqfs n’étaient-ils pas dans l’ancien droit musulman les seules personnes morales ayant un patrimoine autonome affecté à un but statutaire se situant fréquemment dans le cha……続きを見る

Comment l’Égyptien d’aujourd’hui perçoit-il ses ancêtres d’avant l’Islam ? Pour répondre à cette question de façon précise et complète, il faudrait examiner divers éléments : les livres écrits ou di……続きを見る

The inherent paradox of Egyptology is that the objective of its study – people living in Egypt in Pharaonic times – are never the direct object of its studies. Egyptology, as well as archaeology in ……続きを見る

Explore the Magic and History of Gods of Egypt in this fascinating journey: From Ra to Osiris Welcome to a captivating journey through time, where the gods of Ancient Egypt come to life on the pages……続きを見る

From the evidence of Chinese documents, East African excavations and the researches of scholars and historians, the author of this book, originally published in English in 1972, gives a fascinating ……続きを見る

Explora la Magia y la Historia de los Dioses Egipcios en Este Viaje Fascinante: De Ra a Osiris Bienvenido a un viaje cautivador a través del tiempo, donde los dioses del antiguo Egipto cobran vida e……続きを見る

"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to im……続きを見る

Photographic Warfare explores the processes of visual contestation at work in the competing official media campaigns of state forces and militant, nonstate actors in the online environment. Islamist……続きを見る

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed a rising interest in Arabic texts describing and explaining the rituals of the Coptic Church of Egypt. This book provides readers with an English tra……続きを見る

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in whic……続きを見る

Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead i……続きを見る

In non-democratic regimes around the world, non-state organizations provide millions of citizens with medical care, schooling, childrearing, and other critical social services. Why would any authori……続きを見る

By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitution……続きを見る

Winner of the James R. Wiseman Book Award of the Archaeological Institute of America Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to h……続きを見る

This Element explores the organization of power in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and the interaction of diverse social actors between 2100 and 1750 BC. On the one hand, the forms of integration of t……続きを見る

Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to t……続きを見る

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt –daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’ – and the closely rel……続きを見る

Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyp……続きを見る

Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and d……続きを見る

During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.C.E.), ancient Egyptian women of high standing were interred with lavish ornamentation and carefully gathered possessions. Buried near the pyramids ……続きを見る

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000–1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing……続きを見る

In seguito ad una visita al museo egizio, nella veste di un semplice utente, si è risvegliato il mio interesse per gli antichi simboli egizi: la croce ansata, il bastone Uas ed il pilastro Djed. Le ……続きを見る

Les nombreux aspects de l’occidentalisation du Proche-Orient ont été étudiés par les historiens, les spécialistes des sciences politiques, les anthropologues et autres fidèles des sciences sociales.……続きを見る

De mémoire d’Egyptien, le pays n’a jamais connu une telle campagne d’information. Sur les murs, les autobus, sur les écrans de télévision et de cinéma, sur les ondes de la radio nationale comme dans……続きを見る

À partir d’un volumineux dossier de presse (trente-sept articles tirés de divers journaux et revues), un panorama très complet du secteur bancaire islamique, de son fonctionnement, de son évolution ……続きを見る

Maurice Martin (1915-2004) fut un homme d’Église à sa façon singulière. Jésuite, il vécut plusieurs décennies au Caire, où il enseigna dès les années 1960 la philosophie. Il côtoya la jeunesse cairo……続きを見る