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Islam is the dominant religion in Egypt with about 80 million Muslims, comprising 94.7% of the population, as of 2010.Almost the whole of the Egyptian Muslim Sunnis.Islam is recognized as the state religion since Napoleon's invasion 1980.Prior in 1798, almost all of the educational, legal, health and social affairs of Egypt were in the hands of religious officials. Ottoman rule strengthens the public and political role of the ulama (religious scholars) as Mamluk rule had done for the Ottomans, because Islam is the state religion and because the political divisions in the country were based on religious division. During the 19th and 20th centuries, successive governments struggled intensely to limit the role of the ulama in public life and religious institutions under closer control.After bring the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the government's responsibility for the appointment of officials to mosques and religious schools. The government is required to begin reform of the Al-Azhar University in 1961. These reforms allowed to withdraw department from outside the ranks of the traditionally trained orthodox ulama.
Islamitische Egypte
History
In the late 10th century, the Shiite Ismaili Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt their center and Cairo, their capital. Egypt flourished and the Fatimids developed an extensive trade network in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Their trade and diplomatic ties extended all the way to China and its Song Dynasty, which eventually determined the economic course of Egypt during the High Middle Ages. Many traces of Fatimid architecture exist in Cairo today, the leading examples are the Al Azhar University and the Al Hakim mosque. Fatimid palace in Cairo consisted of two parts. It was in the Khan el-Khalili area Bin El Qasryn street.In the early 20th century, Egyptian Islam was a complex and diverse religion. Although Muslims agree on the basics of the faith, the various social groups and classes of the country applied differently Islam in their daily lives. The learned theologians of the Al-Azhar University in general version of Islam practiced by illiterate rejected religious preachers and rural farmers. Most of the upper and upper-middle-class Muslims believed either that religious expression was a private matter for each individual or that Islam should play a more dominant role in public life. Islamic religious revival movements, whose appeal across class lines, were present in most cities and many villages.
Islam and state
Muhammad Ali, who assumed power in the early 1800s in Egypt nationalized all land, including hundreds of thousands of hectares of land belonging to Al Azhar mosque, making the financing of that institution under State control control.This put an end to the political independence of the Ulama . Awqaf, traditional independent donations for mosques and Islamic schools, was a ministry of the government. In 1961, Gamal Abdel Nasser Al Azhar was part of the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs. He also announced the appointment of the great sheikh the prerogative of the Egyptian president, like the appointment of another state official. Over time, the school was responsible for assigning imams to all major mosques, imams and all these had to be graduates of the school
Ulama
Orthodox ulama or "religious establishment" found themselves in a difficult position during the wave of Islamic activism that swept through Egypt in the years 1970 and 1980. The majority of Ulama, including those of Al-Azhar University, are members of the Egyptian state, who "recognize supremacy of the regime, support stability, and legitimize its policies." Radical Islamists viewed them as puppets of the status quo. To maintain their influence in the country, the ulama espoused more conservative positions. After 1974, for example, many al-Azhar ulama, who had agreed to family planning initiatives in the 1960s, openly criticizing the government efforts to control the population. The ulama also supported moves to reform legal code of the country to comply with Islamic teachings. They nevertheless remained relatively moderate; they were largely loyal to the government and condemned violence by radical Islamic groups. Outside the state mosques are more than 40,000 independent mosques throughout Egypt.
contemporary faith
Egyptian Muslims believe Islam defines one's relationship with God, with other Muslims and non-Muslims. Some devout Muslims believe that there can be no dichotomy between the sacred and the profane. Many Muslims say that the governments of Egypt secular and even anti-religious have been since the beginning of 1920. Politics organized Muslims who seek to cleanse the country of its secular policies are referred to as "Islamists." Egypt largely illiterate urban and rural lower classes are intensely devoted to Islam, but they usually do not have a thorough knowledge of the religion. Even village religious leaders usually have only a rudimentary knowledge of Islam. The typical village imam, or prayer leader has at most a few years of school; his scientific work was limited to reading prayers and sermons prepared by others and learn passages from the Koran. People Religion include a variety of unorthodox practices such as the veneration of saints, the use of charms and amulets, and the belief in the influence of evil spirits.
Popular Islam is mainly based on oral tradition. Imams with almost no formal education generally refrain from reciting the whole Qur'an and appropriate verses on religious occasions. They also tell stories on religious feasts and commemorations marking rites of passage of an individual. Predestination plays an important role in the popular Islam.This term includes the belief that everything that happens in life is the will of God and the belief that trying to avoid the accident is pointless and invites worse torment. Revelations of God in the Qur'an are the basis of monotheism combined with a belief in angels and jinn (spirits) .Popular Islam ranges from informal prayer sessions or Koran study organized sects or orders. Because of the pervasive sexual segregation of the Egyptian Islamic society, men and women often practice their religion in different ways. A specific female religious habit is the zar, a ceremony for helping women to appease spirits that are believed to have possessed them. Women trained by their mothers or other women in zar lore organizes the ceremonies. A zar organizer weekly meetings and employs music and dance to ecstatic trance cause possessed women. Rich women sometimes have to spend on private zar executed in their homes; zar these are more extensive than public, a few days and sometimes take efforts to involve exorcise spirits. However, while once common, the zar is rarely practiced today under fire for its perception as a religious heresy.There are more than 45 million people aged 35 or younger. The influence of the digital / youth culture is found in the very popular preachers like Amr Khaled, who "maintains a disciplined focus on life, questions and problems of the middle class"; seeks to `living a comfortable life`; young people talk about `closer to God` without changing one's lifestyle; promotes hijab while "joking about dating and flirting." Young `sheikhs` deliver their sermons via the Internet, on private satellite channels and sports clubs, away from the control of Al-Azhar and the state.
One of the Islamic laws.
According to a 1995 law, the application of family law, including marriage, divorce, alimony, child custody, inheritance, and burial, is based on the religion of an individual. In the practice of family law, the State recognizes only the three "heavenly religions." Islam, Christianity and Judaism Muslim families are subject to the Personal Status Law, which is based on Sharia (Islamic law) Christian families. subject to canon law, and Jewish families are dependent on Jewish law. In cases of family law disputes involving a marriage between a Christian woman and a Muslim man, the courts apply the Personal Status Law.Under Islamic law, not -moslim men should convert to Islam to Christian and Jewish women to marry Muslim women. do not have to convert to marry Muslim men. Muslim women are prohibited from marrying Christian men. Muslim female heirs receive half the amount of the inheritance of a male heir while Christian widows of Muslims have no inheritance A sole female heir receives half her parents' estate.; the balance shall be designated male relatives. A sole male heir inherits all the property of his parents. Male Muslim heirs face strong social pressure to provide for all family members who need help; However, this assistance is not always provided. In January 2000 the parliament passed a new Personal Status Law that made it easier for a Muslim woman to obtain a divorce without her husband's permission, provided that it is willing to forgo alimony and the return of her dowry. However, an earlier provision of the bill that it's easier for a woman to travel without the permission of her husband would have made was rejected.
Islam has its own rules and laws, as in any other religion..the statements of Islam are the four lillars of faith.
In the Muslim holy day of worship is Friday.
Every year Muslims celebrate the Holy mounth of Ramadan.In this mounth forbidden her to eat, drink, smoke and have fisical contact doeing the day time, until the sun goes down.
Egypt has amazing beautiful mosque's its worth to visit them.Its apropriate to cover your sholders, and leave your shoes outside.With longhair notes advicible shawl to put over your hair .Here are some suggestions
