...This chapter shows that in late antiquity most Greek poets came from Upper Egypt rather than the traditional centers. They were mostly professional poets who traveled widely in search of patrons. In a period which saw the triumph of Christianity and the decline and eventual proscription of worship...

...The capital of the sixth province in Upper Egypt during the pharaonic period was known as Dandara. The oldest tradition of Christians in Dandara is found in a reference in the Arabic Synaxarion under 15 Bashans (Basset 1904—29, vol. 4: 386). Because of Pachomius's influence...

... Catholic faith or as a sign of modernity has to be further researched. Christians in Upper Egypt cling to their traditions. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the modest Akhmim figurative art from the Beylik-Mamluk and missionary eras are those details that are loaned from late antique and early...

...Mesokemic (siglum: M) is a dialect of Coptic that was discovered relatively late. Paul E. Kahle was the first to describe its characteristics and distinguish M clearly from the other dialects of Upper Egypt and the Fayoum. The corpus of texts in Mesokemic...

...The Sufis of Upper Egypt had a troubled relationship with the state and its representatives. As we have seen, Ayyubid and Mamluk military elites typically sought the support of the ʿulamāʾ– Including Sufis–as part of a broader strategy of legitimation and rule. This was true as much as of the Sufis...

...This chapter notes how the study of Islamic preaching came into fruition. This study is the accumulated product of several periods of field research, the longest of which was the first, an eighteen-month residence in a provincial town in Upper Egypt. The late 1970s marked the beginning of a time...

...This chapter deals with the monasteries in Lower Egypt that were part of the Pachomian Federation of Upper Egypt. In the discourse of Coptic Christian history, the Pachomians retain their place as part of the golden age of monastic origins from which their movement transitions seamlessly...

... of the Nile. In particular it investigates river journey times in Upper Egypt between Cairo, Qus and Aswan, and also the overland journey times between these cities to the Red Sea ports of al-Quseir and ‘Aydhab. In the Delta it looks at the times taken to travel between Cairo and Alexandria, Rosetta, Damietta...

... as naturalistic depictions of bovids (wild cattle or aurochs), birds, hippopotamuses, gazelles, fish, hartebeest and stylized human figures, dated as far back as 15,000 bce. Similar motifs can be found both in the Nile Valley and in the adjacent desert areas of Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia, indirectly...

... Palette serekh symbol Two dog Palette unification bulls captives ḥm signs Lower Egypt northern region mace heads Naqada period officials Red Crown of Lower Egypt šd šd shedshed viziers Asiatics Dynastic Race ‘Followers of Horus’ Horus falcon god iconography ideograms papyri Upper Egypt...

... Gardiner Alan unification bureaucracy China culture Mayans Mesopotamia propaganda stelae texts Abydos cemeteries cuneiform writing labels Sumeria Bubastis Buto Lower Egypt northern region Scorpion ruler trade Upper Egypt southern region archaeology Chabas François Coptic script...

...Pachomius (c.292–346) is often (and somewhat inaccurately) singled out as the founder of cenobitic monasticism, that is, of monks living in organized communities. He established in Upper Egypt a remarkable confederation of monasteries—known as the Koinonia (“Fellowship...

... the later phase of the Second Intermediate Period, corresponding to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasties (ca. 1650–1550 bc) of Upper Egypt, namely the southern region between Abydos and Aswan. The chapter includes a reconstruction of the sequence of rulers of the Seventeenth Dynasty...

...Through a microhistory of Qina, a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in this province over the last five hundred years. It explores modes of subaltern rebellion against these “imagined empires” that failed in achieving...

...Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The chapters in this volume, written by international specialists in Coptology, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt...

... or Hidaya Fahmy Ziad and Copts Cole Juan Ricardo 1919 in Upper-Egypt Fikri Abaza Effendiyya In ‘Maksur ya Iqa‘’, (‘Broken Rhythm’), ¹ a song performed in the wake of the 2011 revolution, the author plays with the connotations of the term ghawgha’. He...

... Intermediate periods Merikara officials Ptahhotep vizier stelae Upper Egypt southern region viziers Amenemhat I Anksheshonqy demotic script Maat papyri Sumeria Deities Egyptian First Intermediate Period Medinet Habu Flinders Petrie Pyramid Texts Religion Upper Egypt The pairs of cow's...

...This new study weaves anthropological detail with hard facts and analysis as it takes the reader to visit the community schools of Upper Egypt. It offers a historical understanding of the initiative whilst carefully embedding it in the political and economic global context of the late twentieth...

...This chapter discusses the author's arrival at the large village of Munckaba't, where the western chain of mountains behind Asyoo't becomes a prominent feature in the landscape. Asyoo ‘t is also called Sooyoo't. This city has succeeded to Gir'ga (or Jir'ja) as the capital of Upper Egypt; or rather...