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THE NILE (cid:0) THE NILE (cid:0) Histories, Cultures, Myths edited by Haggai Erlich and Israel Gershoni boulder london Published in the United States of America in 2000 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1800 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80301 www.rienner.com and in the United Kingdom by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU © 2000 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Nile: histories, cultures, myths / edited by Haggai Erlich and Israel Gershoni. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55587-672-2 (hc. : alk. paper) 1. Nile River Valley—Civilization. DT115.N45 1999 962—dc21 99-21066 CIP British Cataloguing in Publication Data A Cataloguing in Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed and bound in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements ∞ of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of David Ayalon, 1914–1998 (cid:0) Contents Acknowledgments xi Map of the Nile Basin xii 1 Introduction Haggai Erlich and Israel Gershoni 1 PART 1 PEOPLES AND IDENTITIES IN MEDIEVAL TIMES 2 The Spread of Islam and the Nubian Dam David Ayalon 17 3 Ethiopia’s Alleged Control of the Nile Richard Pankhurst 25 4 Consolidation of Christianity Around the Source of the Blue Nile Paul Henze 39 5 Did Jewish Influence Reach Ethiopia via the Nile? Steven Kaplan 57 6 Arab Geographers, the Nile, and the History of Bilad al-Sudan Nehemia Levtzion 71 vii viii Contents PART 2 THE NILE AS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE 7 Up the River or Down the River? An Afrocentrist Dilemma Yaacov Shavit 79 8 Renaissance Geographical Literature and the Nile Benjamin Arbel 105 9 The Legend of the Blue Nile in Europe Emery van Donzel 121 10 The “Gondar Utopia” Joachim Warmbold 131 11 The Nile as a Gateway for Missionary Activity in Abyssinia Uoldelul Chelati Dirar 139 PART 3 OLD WATERS, MODERN IDENTITIES 12 The Father of Rivers: The Nile in Ethiopian Literature Bairu Tafla 153 13 Brothers Along the Nile: Egyptian Concepts of Race and Ethnicity, 1895–1910 Eve Troutt Powell 171 14 Egypt, Ethiopia, and “The Abyssinian Crisis,” 1935–1936 Haggai Erlich 183 15 Geographers and Nationalism in Egypt: Huzayyin and the Unity of the Nile Valley, 1945–1948 Israel Gershoni 199 PART 4 CONTEMPORARY VOICES 16 The Aswan High Dam and Revolutionary Symbolism in Egypt Yoram Meital 219 17 The Nile in Egyptian-Sudanese Relations, 1956–1995 Gabriel Warburg 227 18 Removing the Nubians: The Halfawis at Khashm al-Girba Ismail H. Abdalla 235
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