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Among 1892 and 1920 approximately 30 Arabic periodicals through, for and approximately ladies have been produced in Egypt for movement round the Arab global. This ebook is a historical past of such texts which explores the connections among literary tradition and social transformation.

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2500 bc composed around the same time, it is the desire for blue stone to furnish the temple of the goddess Inanna that drives the rulers of Uruk into competition with the lord of Aratta: a mythical city beyond the eastern mountains, whose inhabitants are said to ‘cut the pure lapis lazuli from its block’ (Chapter 5). In Egyptian cosmology, the visual properties of this blue stone are closely linked to concepts of life force, organic growth, and regeneration; while in Mesopotamian literature, as the archaeologist Dan Potts (1997) points out, ‘lapis-like’ was a standard metaphor for great riches, ‘a synonym for all things bright and splendid, especially the beard or other features of heroes and deities’.

In assessing the significance of such long-distance transfers it is misleading to refer to metals, timber, coloured stone, tree resins, and aromatics as ‘exotica’ or ‘luxuries’. This diminishes their importance, implying that they were little more than ‘optional extras’ for elite groups whose power over their subordinates was otherwise assured. Such views may have been tenable in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At that time it was widely believed that, in dry climates, the political structures of ‘despotic’ states were a direct outgrowth of their dominant mode of farming, using irrigation channels to water otherwise arid and infertile lands.

Marooned on the shores of Byblos, Wenamun was forced to learn a lesson that modern writers on the ancient world have often seen fit to ignore. We tend to portray ancient societies as existing rather like Shelley’s famous description of Ozymandias, in splendid but desolate isolation. Regional specialists are not averse to claiming some elevated status for their particular area of expertise; and the layout of modern museums often militates against an understanding of the relationships between societies.

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