There is a strong requirement
for a comprehensive methodology and the Court
to reach a scientific view far - as much as
possible - from emotional biases to give Briefing
of the Egyptian personality characteristics
and access to the keys, so I collected several
years' guests and expert idea about Egyptian.
1- Egyptian Customs equal
Eternity of wisdom
- (Authenticity and Traditions) which means
for them the stability and continuity with several
thousand of background stories and memories
- Egyptiana are civilized people. They are the
first among nations, who have built a country
and were the first people of the world in practicing
agriculture and construction of cities, who
developed the state system,
- It was proved that Egyptian farmer is still
linked with the roots showing in his way of
life, his home, his village, and his resections
for both grandparents and the elderly, and adheres
words, his way of remembering and using proverbs
in his daily life. In brief we could say eternity
of wisdom.
- Egyptians have a great capacity to adapt to
circumstances, it seems that this capability
is gained from their long history in dealing
with various types of rulers, face the changing
of circumstances and conditions which they undergo,
they have great flexibility in handling, and
have the ability to accept the status quo and
adapt to whatever this command, have the patience
of excruciating pressure conditions, as they
said in their proverbs (be patient of your bad
neighbor, sooner he would leave the neighborhood
or sooner he would die first), they bet always
count on time to solve their problems, or count
on that time would Decompose and fade problems
and their opponents.
The French Orientals "Jack Parken"
see that 'Fahlowa" or "something between
Savvy & acting as smart" behavior is
characteristic key of the Egyptian character,
and he felt that "this behavior is enabled
Egypt to not be lost but same time make them
lose a lot of being with developed counties".
2- Egyptians are religious:
The Arab land was the cradle of monotheistic
religions, while Egypt was the beating heart
of Arabism and Middle East, and the Castle that
protects religions from being tampered with,
this is evident by the following ;
1- Egyptian tolerance, as there is no place
for intolerance or fanatism against others.
2- They always wish to be Martyrs for God regardless
which religion they believed in .
3- Their capital Cairo is known as "city
of a thousand minarets"
4- great number of Contributors in building
mosques and worshipers on Fridays or on Sunday
for Christians.
5 - The center location of mosques in cities
or villages, as a religious and cultural center
where other buildings are usually built as circles
around it, same as the Imam Played role in guiding
people gathered around him in circles.
6- it includes the largest Islamic university
in the world 'Al-Azhar University', and huge
number of worldwide graduated religious scholars.
7- Many of those who do not know the Egyptians
themselves: "do not know the fact that
Egypt has best Koran Chanters in the world especially
in terms of vocals and pronunciation ".
8- Religious expressions in their daily lives
"God willing - God willing" are used
for talking about the future.
"Allah Akbar" in the impressive victory.
"Praise be to God" upon completion
of the work.
9- No matter if we are talking about Pharaohs,
Egyptian Christians, or even Egyptian Muslims
they all have built pyramids, tombs, mosques,
churches, or even old temples much better than
their homes, which means that they always take
in consideration that second life and Gods are
always there watching their steps.
10- most of the Egyptians are Muslims and as
part of Muslims believes they must honor all
prophets of Jews & Christians - Abraham,
Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David and Solomon among
others - as their own prophets.
3- Egyptian Combining both
extremes;
"Grief and humor," they likes telling
or listening tojokes , , they tend to being
sad s , you just walk in the street and you
can see this sadness on their faces, which particularly
appears in their songs that address such alike
like: "the famous the night (name of a
girl Leila in a story of a sad end in the popular
Egyptian drama), and her beloved who is name
Ain or "eye", even you can feel the
meaning behind the names a dark for the night,
and tears coming from eyes!
- (Positive or negative); especially in the
issue that touches their personality and nationality,
which is subject to many different views &
reflects the interests or trends & feelings
4- Egyptians only arise in
specific cases,
A- when some one violates their sanctity accumulated
over century's religious beliefs.
B- when injure national dignity by humiliation
way.
C- When threatening their livelihood.
Tyrants and dictators always know limits of
these things which force them to revolt, so
always try to keep the minimum degree of freedom
to ensure their continued loyalty, or attempt
to deceive to keep them not up to the situation
of humiliation, prevent reach reasons instigator
of the revolution.
Changes and Challenges facing
the Egyptian personality:
There is no doubt that there have been changes
included the nature of Egyptian, Egypt become
more overcrowding in the cities and villages
rising up the feeling of malaise, choking, and
excess heat, especially in the summer time,
in addition to high levels of noise pollution
and visual, all led to the growth of a state
of nervous stimulation and aggression of the
Egyptians than they have been assigned before.
The Egyptians recently knew the earthquakes
in recent year "1992", which led to
absents of stability sense to some extent. Nowadays
no longer enough lands in big cities and villages,
farmers was forced to travel east and west in
search of a livelihood for themselves and their
families, on their returned back years later,
they carrying ideas and attitudes belong to
other environments and other cultures, also
led to weakness of their affiliation than before,
specially because Egyptian environment is no
longer affordable & stable as before. These
changes, including: 1- religious orientation
does not accept the polarity of the other different
and tend to be a kaafir (pagan)or excluded .2
- groups who tend to deal aggressively with
the Authority and the community, but these groups
do not yet constitute a general trend, where
the majority of Egyptians remained influenced
by the public nature of the ancient Egyptian,
though this is subject to change in the next
few years in the case of continuing political
and social pressures. 3 - The desire to immigrate
to any place in the ground away from the difficult
living conditions devoid of hope and a dream
especially for young people. 4 - A general state
of frustration, anxiety and distress, but does
not form - until now - in the form of an act
to change. 4 - Spirit of enthusiastic consuming-
despite the poverty - in particular those which
affected the richer parasite quickly.So, the
changed nature in some aspects and changed accordingly
in some of the Egyptian personality characteristics.
Some may say: What is strange in that, not only
Egypt, Egyptian like all human societies.....
This is legitimate and logical, but in the Egyptian
personality & in Egyptian life you could
find this pluralism, this blatant contradictions
to the point, this made writer like Hendos Morris
(Maurice Hindus 1949) echoes that Egypt is the
land of contradictions (Land of paradox) may
- as Jamal Hamdan - under the influence of the
extreme variation between the gross social differences,
or on the other hand between the immortality
of the ancient ruins and the banality of housing
areas, or between the valley and the desert
where all side by side, but as neighbors of
life and death.
Therefore, we will find ourselves in front of
features that may seem far apart, sometimes
contradictory, sometimes, which requires travelers
give a lot of patience to understand the Egyptian
manner, their Customs and traditions. (From
the Book; "Egyptians in the mirror",
Rajab Al-Banna, the Family Library publisher
2000)
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