Volume 1
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28 / By Edward William Lane.
- Edward William Lane
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28 / By Edward William Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![song, which was popular throughout Egypt during my first visit to this country, and which was composed on _the occasion of an increase of the income-tax called | Ji'deh, began thus: * You who have [nothing on your head but] a lib’deh! sell it, and pay the fi’deh.” The lib'deh, I have before mentioned, is a felt cap, which is worn under, or instead of, the turban; and the man must be very poor who has no other covering than this for his head. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME, Leudon: Printed hy W. Clowes and Sons, 14, Charing Cross,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29287145_0001_0462.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)