First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane's approval. Lacking parts of Lane's text and many of his original illustrations (while adding...

"Arabian Society In The Middle Ages" from Edward William Lane. British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer (1801-1876).

"Selections From The Kur-an" from Edward William Lane. British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer (1801-1876).