Nubia: History and Religious Background
Nubia: History and Religious Background
With the building of the High Dam at Aswan, Egypt generated a worldwide movement to save the ancient monuments of Nubia, but stimulated practically no effort to document the culture of the living Nubians. The goals of this study are to provide some insight into how Islam was practiced at the village level in Nubia as well as some understanding of how religion related to social process and of how it articulated with ceremonial practices that appear to be non-Islamic. The Nubians regarded themselves as strong Muslims, though they were converted to the Islamic faith relatively late in comparison with the Egyptians. The syncretism of Nubian ceremonial practices contains three major categories of customs and beliefs: Non-Islamic, Popular Islamic, and Orthodox Islamic. These categories are not simple classifications, but are recognized in practice among the Nubians themselves.
Keywords: Nubia, Egyptians, Non-Islamic, Popular Islamic, Orthodox Islamic
Cairo Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
