A Physician on the Nile : : A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years / / ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī; ed. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.

Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī,...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature
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