TY - BOOK ID - 663598 TI - The medieval Nile : route, navigation, and landscape in Islamic Egypt PY - 2014 SN - 9789774166143 9774166140 PB - Cairo The American University in Cairo Press DB - UniCat KW - History of Africa KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Egypt KW - Nile River KW - Nil (cours d'eau) KW - Basse-Égypte (Égypte) KW - Égypte KW - History KW - Navigation KW - Histoire KW - Ports KW - Navigation, Primitive KW - Locomotion KW - Orientation KW - Nautical astronomy KW - Naval art and science KW - Pilots and pilotage KW - Bahr en Nīl KW - Nahr an Nīl KW - Nīl River KW - Nilus River KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Ports. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:663598 AB - "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." ER -