and refuse the arab label
that s it.
what do you think?
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and refuse the arab label
that s it.
what do you think?
During the rule of Muhamed Ali and his sons till 1878, both arabs and copts were not seen as different, especially by muhammed ali and his son ibrahim pasha.
Some times they were treated good, some times bad, both the parties.
All Egyptians are real Egyptians. The Copts are more real in the cultural sense, in that they preserved their cultural identity while most other Egyptians lost it to Islam.
How is Christianity more "Egyptian" than Islam?
Actually, you may have a point and Christianity is actually more Egyptian...afterall, the concept of the 'trinity' was invented by an Egyptian
and as for Copts...they are no different than Egyptian muslims..as in, the Copts from the delta are more related to the Muslims from the delta, and the Copts from Upper Egypt are more genetically related to Upper Egyptian Muslims.
As for culture...modern day Egyptian Copts were highly influenced culturally by Levantine and Greek christians in the 19th-20th centuries.
They're the closest to the Dynastic Egyptians by blood. I guess closer to the late antiquity Egyptians in culture.