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Map of Egypt showing the course of the Nile. Nearly all of Egypt’s population is crowded into the narrow Nile Valley. The Nile An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture JOHN A. SHOUP Copyright © 2017 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Control Number: 2016048705 ISBN: 978-1-4408-4040-1 EISBN: 978-1-4408-4041-8 21 20 19 18 17 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available as an eBook. ABC-CLIO An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 www.abc-clio.com This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Thematic Essays Geography of the Nile History of the Nile Religions of the Nile Politics and the Nile Culture of the Nile Legends about the Nile Environmental Issues of the Nile Controversies of the Nile Part II: Topical Entries ‘Abd al-Halim Hafiz (1929–1977) Abu Simbel Abydos Ahmad Rifa’at Tahtawi (1801–1873) Ahmad ‘Urabi (1841–1911) Alexandria Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (1935–present) Ancient Egyptian Religion Aswan Aswan Dam, Low and High Atbara River Bahr al-Ghazal River Baker, Samuel (1821–1893), and Baker, Florence (1841–1916) Barring, Sir Evelyn (Lord Cromer) (1841–1917) Blue Nile River Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769–1821) Bruce, James (1730–1794) Buganda Bujagali Falls Bunyoro Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821–1890) Cairo Cataracts of the Nile Churchill, Winston (1874–1965) Coptic Christianity Coptic Churches and Monasteries Coptic Museum Damietta Dendara Dinka Disuq Edfu Egyptian Gods Egyptology Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer) (1840–1892) Ethiopia (Abyssinia) Fashoda (Kodok) Fayyum Felucca (Falukkah) Giza Gonder Gondokoro Gordon, Charles George (1833–1885) Grant, James Augustus (1827–1892) Haile Selassie I (r. 1916–1974) Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) History of Egypt: Ancient History of Egypt: Islamic Period History of Egypt: Ptolemaic and Roman Periods History of Southern Sudan History of Sudan: Ancient Kush and Nubia History of Sudan: Arrival of Christianity and Islam History of Sudan: Modern Period Idi Amin Dada (1928–2003) Islam on the Nile Islamic Monuments Islamic Museum Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir (Gamal Abdel Nasser) (1918–1970) Jinja, Ripon Falls, and Owen Falls Dam Jonglei Canal Juba Judaism on the Nile Kampala Kassala Khartoum and Omdurman Khedive Isma‘il (1830–1895) Khedive Tawfiq (1852–1892) King Faruq (1920–1965) Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850–1916) Kom Ombo Lake Albert Lake Kyoga Lake Mariut Lake Nasser Lake Tana Lake Victoria Lane, Edward William (1801–1876) Luxor Mahmudiyyah Canal Malakal Mansurah Menelik II (1889–1913) Mengistu Haile Mariam (r. 1977–1991) Meroe Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi (c. 1844–1885) Muhammad ‘Ali (1769–1849) Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat (1917–1981) Muhammad Husni Mubarak (1928–) Murchison Falls Museum of Egyptian Antiquities: The Egyptian Museum, Cairo Museveni, Yoweri (1944–present) Mutesa I (r. 1856–1884) Najib Mahfuz (1911–2006) Nile Delta Nuba Nuba Mountains Nubar Pasha (1825–1899) Nubians Nuer Pharaonic Temples Rashid Rastafaris (Rastafarians or Rastas) Religious Holidays and Celebrations Ruwenzori Mountains (Rwenzori) Saad Zaghlul (1859–1927) Sennar Sennar, the Funj State Shilluk Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864) Stanley, Henry Morton (1841–1904) Sudd, The Sufism and Sufi Brotherhoods Taha Hussein (1889–1973) Tanta Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) Tayib Salih (1929–2009) Thesiger, Wilfred (1910–2003) Tis Isat Falls Traditional Religions of Southern Sudan Umm Kulthum (c. 1898–1975) ‘Uthman Diqna (c. 1840–1926) Wadi Halfa Western Christianity on the Nile White Nile River Wingate, Orde (1903–1944) Yohannes IV (r. 1872–1889) Yusuf Wahbi Bey (1897–1982) Part III: Primary Documents Document 1: Hymn to Nut, the Sky-Goddess, and Hymn to Ra, the Sun-God Document 2: The Book of the Dead Document 3: The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor Document 4: The Story of Sinuhe Document 5: The Peasant and the Workman Document 6: What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile Document 7: A Walk Across Africa Document 8: How I Found Livingstone Document 9: Exchange of Notes between Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and the Egyptian Government on the Use of Waters of the Nile for Irrigation Document 10: United Arab Republic and Sudan Agreement (with Annexes) for the Full Utilization of the Nile Waters Document 11: U.S. Statement on Aswan High Dam Selected Bibliography Index
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