Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
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2007
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-061-5 (ISBN)
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
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Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career. This title presents not only a biography of this important scholar, but also a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi's work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries.
Labib Habachi, Egypt’s most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi’s work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries—among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar.
The account of Habachi’s major discovery, the Sanctuary of Heqaib on Elephantine in 1946, was shelved by Egypt’s Antiquities Department for thirty years. When it was finally released for publication, it became the subject of a heated controversy between Habachi and a western scholar that was never resolved.
To construct her picture of Labib Habachi, Jill Kamil draws on a wide range of sources, including a long personal acquaintance with the subject. Tracing the arc of Habachi’s career, Kamil sets his life’s work in its full context, providing a valuable perspective on the development of Egyptian Egyptology and the sometimes fraught relationship between Egypt’s scholars and the western archaeological establishment.
Labib Habachi, Egypt’s most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue biography of this important scholar, but a survey of Egyptian archaeology in the twentieth century in which Habachi’s work is measured against that of his best-known contemporaries—among them Selim Hassan, Ahmed Fakhry, Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr, and Gamal Mokhtar.
The account of Habachi’s major discovery, the Sanctuary of Heqaib on Elephantine in 1946, was shelved by Egypt’s Antiquities Department for thirty years. When it was finally released for publication, it became the subject of a heated controversy between Habachi and a western scholar that was never resolved.
To construct her picture of Labib Habachi, Jill Kamil draws on a wide range of sources, including a long personal acquaintance with the subject. Tracing the arc of Habachi’s career, Kamil sets his life’s work in its full context, providing a valuable perspective on the development of Egyptian Egyptology and the sometimes fraught relationship between Egypt’s scholars and the western archaeological establishment.
JILL KAMIL is the author of Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs (AUC Press, 2002) and numerous guidebooks to Egypt’s pharaonic and Christian antiquities. She is the heritage editor of Al-Ahram Weekly. She studied Egyptology under Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr and field archaeology under the guidance of Labib Habachi.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.4.2015 |
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Verlagsort | Cairo |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 785 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
ISBN-10 | 977-416-061-4 / 9774160614 |
ISBN-13 | 978-977-416-061-5 / 9789774160615 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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