Friday, 21 October 2011

Social life in Islamic Egypt

With the Arab conquest of Egypt by Umar ibn al-Aas in 640 AD, was transformed social life in Egypt, a large shift, it has turned Egypt from a Christian state ruled by the Romans into an Islamic state ruled by the Arabs, a country that speaks the language of the Coptic to Arabic-speaking countries. And began to increase in numbers of Arabs from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula with the entry of thousands of people of Egypt to the Islamic religion has this happened trickle.

Also began life as a Muslim imbued social aspects of life in social occasions and holidays, but also clothing and social aspects through various Islamic eras. He has kept the Muslims of the Egyptian festivals such social Holiday Easter and Holiday flood and other festivals of ancient Egyptian and added to many of the Islamic holidays, such as migration Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet's Birthday and fasting Ramadan and Mbahjh and Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr and the other was the Birthdays common between Muslims and Christians and holidays, the other for each of them was each Party shall maintain and respect the feelings of the other party Birthdays

There were also many marriages between Muslims and Christians and Egyptian rulers resulted in good treatment of Egyptian Muslims to Arab Muslims welcomed the Egyptians in Egypt, and gradually turned Egypt into an Islamic state and one of the people of the fabric and one collected by the love and compassion

Has been known for some of the medieval Islamic manifestations of a private, such as extravagance, luxury and pomp, both palaces of princes and rulers in terms of buildings, furniture and manifestations of processions in the festivals and celebrations, as well as attention to music, singing and holding councils and seminars in palaces and in the ages of other Muslim, we find that the social life at least aspects of luxury and Albzach as happened during the times Kaliouby the contemporary wars of bulbar and whether a state of war, or jihad austerity imposed by the state of war

Throughout the centuries of Islamic kept the people of Egypt on the characteristics of social life, despite what was by Egypt to changes in political, economic, military, and the influx of many military campaigns or military coups as large as Arabs from entering or being alone with Ibn Tulun and independence from the Abbasids or took things Egypt Kulaiobien and the invasion of Fatimid Egypt or took the Circassian Mamluk and maritime affairs of the country but the social life in Islamic Egypt has been on the pace of one, which is blessed with its own characteristics, regardless of these great changes.

 

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