Garden of Egypt

Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

Haug, Brendan

The University of Michigan Press

06/2024

290

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9780472133529

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Preface
List of maps and figures
List of tables
Aids for reader
Note on the transliteration of greek and arabic
Introduction: from water, everything
1. Capturing the flood
2. Hybrid landscapes
3. Governing flow
4. Communities of flow
5. The tail end
Conclusion: not static but flowing
Appendix: english translation of al-maqrizi (1364-1442 ce) on the fayyum, containing an epitome of abu ish?aq's schedule of regulations (dustur) of the canal system (1031 ce)
Bibliography
Index
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Environmental history; Ancient history; medieval Islamic history; papyrology; Egypt; Fayyum; Nile River; Egyptian irrigation; Egyptian agriculture; Hellenistic Egypt; Roman Egypt; Ayyubid Egypt; colonial Egypt; water studies; papyri