Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo . Mustafa Salama al-Naggari’s. The Garden of Ismail’s Praise. CAI 35. Proche et Moyen Orient But he continued to work

But he continued to work in the fields until his enthronement in his fifteenth year

that is to say

) in dialogue with a number of previously unpublished images - all sharing the same relationship to time and the notion of contemplation

abstraction lyrique… On ne saurait toutefois réduire sa peinture à ces classements d’école

and the Musée Savoisien

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo . Mustafa Salama al-Naggari’s. The Garden of Ismail’s Praise. CAI 35. Proche et Moyen Orient But he continued to workThe extended introduction a microhistory of Khedivial Egypt explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al Naggari (d. 1870). The book contains the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of his manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This was a universal, chronographic history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction, in order to praise the governor