The medieval Nile : route, navigation, and landscape in Islamic Egypt / John P. Cooper.

"An interdisciplinary study that draws together geography, historical navigation data, and eyewitness accounts into a comprehensive picture of one of the world's great rivers. This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: med...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, John P. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Navigation > Nile River.
Navigation.
Nile River > History.
Egypt > History > 1250-1517.
Egypt > History > 1517-1882.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part 1. Geography
  • Imagining the Nile
  • The Pre-Islamic Nile delta
  • The western delta in the Islamic Era
  • The Eastern delta in the Ismamic Era
  • The Bahr Yusuf
  • Part 2. Navigation
  • The Nile flood cycle
  • Propulsion: Wind, current, and human labor
  • Local hazards: Mouths, cataracts, and mountains
  • Nile journey times
  • Onward connections: The Mediterranean and Red Seas
  • Part 3. Ports and the navigational landscape
  • The ports of Fustat and Cairo
  • Ports of the Western delta
  • Ports of the Eastern delta
  • Ports of the Red Sea.