The Egyptian Peasant is a book by Henry Habib Ayrout about the life of the Egyptian peasant (fellah). It is regarded as a major work on the subject.[1] Halim Barakat has described it as "unsympathetic and biased".[2]

The Egyptian Peasant
AuthorHenry Habib Ayrout
Original titleMoeurs et coutumes des fellahs
LanguageFrench
GenreNon-fiction
Publication date
1938
Publication placeFrance

History of the publication

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The book was first published in France, in 1938, under the title Moeurs et coutumes des fellahs. After that, the book went through some revisions, and translations by the author, for the English audience. It was also translated to Arabic.[3] The book was published in English-speaking countries in 1963.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Timothy Mitchell, "The Invention and Reinvention of the Egyptian Peasant", International Journal of Middle East Studies 22 (1990), 129-150.
  2. ^ Barakat, Halim (1003). The Arab world: society, culture, and state (new ed.). University of California Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-520-08427-8.
  3. ^ "Fr Henry Ayrout".