Quand Le Caire se révèle copte…

The scope of the present paper is to define the nature of the relation of the Coptic Orthodox community to the space in the city of Cairo, in an attempt to find out in what manner it is influenced by the Coptic Revival Movement (end 19th – 20th c.) and its various aspirations. The distribution of th...

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Main Author: Anne-Sophie Vivier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2005-09-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/2809
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description The scope of the present paper is to define the nature of the relation of the Coptic Orthodox community to the space in the city of Cairo, in an attempt to find out in what manner it is influenced by the Coptic Revival Movement (end 19th – 20th c.) and its various aspirations. The distribution of the Coptic habitat is the result of a long history – medieval and Ottoman; while a certain concentration of the Coptic community is surely observable, it is also true that it is exempted of any serious tendency to ghettoize itself. On the other side, the strong communitarian character of the practices of sociability, noticeable around the quarter parishes, seems to be the direct result of the Revival. This is also true as regards the great religious edifices of the last decades, which are strongly marking the Coptic presence, operating in the same time a symbolic appropriation of Cairo’s territory. This is indicative of the Revival’s historical continuity with a long tradition that had already inseminated Cairo with an important number of Christian sites.
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