Review article: Edward William Lane 1801-1876. The Life of the Pioneering Egyptologist and Orientalist. By Jason Thompson. London: Haus Publishing, 2010
István Ormos (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Abstract
The article analyses in detail Jason Thompson’s biography of English Arabist Edward William Lane (1801-1876), whose two main works will never cease to be basic tools on the desk of every student of Arabic culture and Egypt, An Arabic-English Lexicon and The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians.
Keywords
Jason Thompson, Edward William Lane, Egypt in the 19th century