... and Ptolemaic kings but also to the Nubian Meroitic rulers. Following the completion of the first Aswan Dam in 1902, the temple complex at Philae became partially submerged in water. The entire temple would be dismantled into individual blocks and put together again on the artificially raised island of Agilkia...

...As the voyage of Lane continued, Nubia started at the First Cataract that contains Nubian people who were distinctive in their lands. This type of people where observed by Lane, in which he found as well the distinction of Nubia to Egypt in terms of ethnicity and language. However, the Nubian study...

..., thousands of feddans of marginal land were to be brought into full production, and a hydro-electric power source was be made available for industrial development. The government of the United Arab Republic (UAR) planned for the Nubain population relocation. The resettlement of the Nubian population...

...This chapter analyzes Egyptian Nubian labor migration within the wider perspective of both migrancy and permanent migration as they occur throughout the African continent. In the African literature the term, “labor migration” refers to the voluntary circulation of adult male and female laborers...

... they affect, and are affected by, Bedouin communities living in the arid areas of the Nubian Desert in southeastern Egypt. Written by a joint Egyptian, Russian, and British research team, the book seeks to examine how the Bedouin of this area have coped with the environmental changes brought about after...

... development of the Red Sea in this period, exploring the mineral exploitation of the Arabian-Nubian shield and the Arab trade in African slaves, which together drove continued Arab conquest and consolidation of the Bejaland. Aila ‘Ayla Badi‘ al Rih Baghdad China Clysma Hijaz al Mansur Samarra’ Sinai...

... agreement. The author had with him two servants; a Nubian and an Egyptian: the latter was his cook. When the wind failed (which was seldom the case, and it was more seldom adverse) his crew were always ready to tow the boat; four or five of them at a time performing this arduous work, and each successively...

...This chapter deals with an important component of the traditional Nubian ritual system, but one which has lapsed into relative insignificance in modem times. It begins by describing the circumcision rites for Egyptian Nubian boys as they were practiced in some parts of Nubia (e.g., Diwan and Abu...

...In the fall of 1963, the United Arab Republic (UAR) began the orderly relocation of all the Nubian communities along the Nile between Aswan and the Sudanese border, a move necessitated by the construction of the High Dam and involving a population of nearly 50,000 persons. This chapter describes...

...Fig. 18.1. Marble tray with the inscription of King Giorgios IV from the Monastery of the Syrians in Wadi al-Natrun Fig. 18.2. Back of the tray of King Giorgios IV Fig. 18.3. The monasteries of the area of St. John the Little, including the Monastery of (Nubians?) and the Monastery of St...

...This chapter outlines the principal Orthodox ritual as practiced by some Nubians. It describes rituals to changing conditions in the resettled village of Kanuba. Jūm'a (pronounced gūm'a in Kanuba) or Friday prayer is the weekly congregational prayer performed...

...This chapter presents a discussion and description of the Nubian cultural and religious change as exemplified in the village microcosm of Nubian culture. As in most parts of the Islamic culture area, an important feature of the religious life of Egypt and Sudan is the dhikr...

...This chapter focuses on a very narrow set of beliefs within the total spectrum of Nubian religion. The exposition of these beliefs forms a bridge between the concepts and practices of Popular Islam and the surviving non-Islamic elements. Mushahâra beliefs play an important role...

...This chapter describes the form and content of the Nubian zār ceremony and attempts to account for this therapeutic effectiveness. The Nubian zār ceremony is essentially a means of dealing with the demonic powers of evil, variously called gour...

... function to relieve the emotional tensions, anxieties, and fears of bereaved individuals, and to repair the social gap in the interpersonal network of interlocking obligations and reciprocal activity patterns. The Nubian ritual response to death has much in common with customs throughout the Middle East...

...The building of Egypt's High Dam in the 1960s erased innumerable historic treasures, but it also forever obliterated the ancient land of a living people, the Nubians. In the period 1963–64, they were removed en masse from their traditional homelands in southern Egypt and resettled elsewhere. Much...

...This is a retrospective look at a major investigation of the culture of a displaced people. In the 1960s, the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's...