TY  - JOUR
TI  - Portrait of a British Orientalist: Edward William Lane (1801-1876)
AB  - Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion in 1798 made Egypt one of the themesof orientalism and sparked curiosity and travels towards the "Land of thePyramids" in Europe. 27 years after Bonaparte, a young Englishman EdwardWilliam Lane (1801-1876) arrived in Alexandria in July 1825 after a long cruise.He preferred to live among ordinary Egyptians in Cairo. Edward WilliamLane wrote his works as a result of his three trips to Egypt at different times.Traveling through much of ancient and modern Egypt Lane immersed himselfin a contemporary Egyptian lifestyle and described it vividly. He recorded hisobservations, beliefs, languages, customs and traditions of the people in hisworks such as Description of Egypt, An Account of the Manners and Customs ofthe Modern Egyptian, Thousand and One Nights, Selections from Kur’ân and alsoArabic-English Lexicon. During his first visit to Egypt, while working on AncientEgypt, in time he was interested in Arabic and culture of the contemporaryEgyptians, their daily lives and customs. At this point, the specialty of Lane'sworks as a orientalist was to explain Egypt and Egyptians with a “scientific” eye.This article will examine Edward William Lane's place in Egyptian studies invarious dimensions as an Orientalist.
AU  - Guner, Selda
DO  - 10.26650/iutd.743219
PY  - 2021
JO  - Tarih Dergisi
VL  - 0
IS  - 73
SN  - 2619-9505
SP  - 149
EP  - 172
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/424365
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