Land of Enchanters

by Lewis, Bernard; Burstein, Stanley Mayer

• ISBN13: 9781558762664
• ISBN10: 1558762663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition	ix
Preface to the second edition	x
Foreword	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Ancient Egypt	21	(50)
The Middle Kingdom	23	(24)
The Island of the Serpent	23	(6)
The Adventures of Sinuhe	29	(18)
Hyksos Period	47	(8)
Tales of the Magicians	47	(8)
The New Kingdom	55	(12)
The Tale of the Two Brothers	55	(12)
Egypt in the Persian Era	67	(4)
Rhampsinitus and the Clever Thief by Herodotus	67	(4)
Greco-Roman Egypt	71	(28)
The Miracles of Khonsu	73	(5)
The Story of Khamwise	78	(17)
The Dream of Nectanebo	95	(4)
Christian Egypt	99	(12)
Two Coptic Stories	101	(10)
Saint Pisentius and the Jealous Man	102	(4)
Saint Pisentius and the Mummy	106	(5)
Muslim Egypt	111
Tales of Recompense	113
Three Stories	113
Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn ad-Daya
A Merchant and His Wife	114
One of the Kings of India and a Merchant	117
The Midwife of Khumarawaih and Her Sister	119
Echoes of the Past	122
Two Stories from the ``Abridgement of Marvels''	122
The Image that Exposed Adulterers	123
A Visit to the Source of the Nile	125
From the Egyptian History of Murtada ibn al-Khafif
Miraculous Stories of the Pyramids	129
Of Queen Charoba of Egypt and Gebirus the Metapheguian	134
From the Thousand and one Nights	140
The Three Walis	140
Tales of a Cairene Cook	145
The Story of Dalal	145
The Story of 'Arab-Zandiq	155
From Modern Egypt	163
'Amm Mitwalli	163
Mahmud Taimur
Two stories	173
Naguib Mahfouz
The Lawsuit	174
Half a Day	180