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An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern EgyptiansEdward William Lane

Islam and Sufism

An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

by Edward William Lane

A detailed description of everyday life in Cairo in the 1820s and 1830s by the English Arabist, covering religion, law, festivals, saints, magic and beliefs about the jinn. It remains a valuable, if period-bound, ethnographic source.

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