Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi 5: The Year 598

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Another year of drought, another of famine, and even more disasters pile on for the early-13th-century Egyptians. We also see Abd al-Latif make a surprising 20th-century appearance.

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Sources:

  • Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī. A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years. NYU Press, 2021. 
  • Barber, Malcolm. The Crusader States. Yale University Press, 2012.
  • Ellis, Richard. Imagining Atlantis. Knopf, 2012.
  • Modern, John. Neuromatic: Or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain. University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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