The societal role of religious squares in Luxor Governorate: A field study in anthropology

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Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies- Cairo University

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Egyptian society is one of the Arab and Islamic societies in which Sufi orders are widely spread, and this has led to the existence of many of them, as their followers - according to the latest statement of the Sufi Orders Council - have reached more than twenty million citizens affiliated with them, and this has resulted in the existence of entities for this number that is close to 25% of the population of Egypt. It is worth noting that Upper Egypt enjoys the concentration of most of these entities, including, of course, religious squares, and this was the main reason behind conducting this study that aims to identify "the role of religious squares in the life of the Luxor citizen." The city of Luxor was chosen because it includes the most famous religious squares in Upper Egypt, as the study was conducted through the field anthropological approach that depends on living with and observing the members of the study community, and this is what the current study did, and thus reached a set of results, including: that the religious squares in Luxor have a great and important history in building and preserving the Luxor society.

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 34, Issue 67
April (Humanities)
April 2025
Pages 158-259

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