Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane was born in 1801 in Hereford, England, the son of a clergyman. He trained as an engraver in London, but poor health led him to travel to Egypt in 1825. He spent several years there, learning Arabic, adopting local dress and making detailed drawings of ancient monuments and modern life. On later visits he lived in Cairo among Egyptians and gathered material for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), a detailed description of daily life, religion and customs in Cairo that became a classic. From 1838 to 1841 he published an English translation of The Thousand and One Nights, with many notes explaining Arab life and customs; he left out passages he thought unsuitable for family reading. He then returned to Egypt for several years to work on his great Arabic–English Lexicon, which he continued in England for the rest of his life; it was completed after his death by his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole. He died in Worthing in 1876.

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