Customs and traditions of the Egyptians entered the Shiite

There are a number of cities in Egypt, where Shiism emerged and has been connected without the other cities of Egypt. Perhaps the reason for this is due to the migration of Alevis to these cities, or due to a number of advocates of the Shiites, who settled it. .

 
And southern Egypt Bmant Aswan, Esna, Edfu and Armant were a center of common until recently and still it remains common even today, when the South was a haven for Shiites fleeing from the face of the Umayyad, Abbasid and Ayyubid and Mamluk later, and it was a good harbingers of Coal to the level by the Fatimids had contributed to a large extent spread Shiism among the lands.

 
It was for the benefit of the concerns of advocacy, cultural and literary as well as political interests. The Cairo is the center of the movement of Shiism in Egypt as the capital of the Fatimid state and the headquarters of the invitation.

 
Including off the preachers to Egypt and Njuaha regions, and cities in Upper Shiite revolts that exploded against Saladin and sparked revolutions against other Mamluks and the Ottomans

.In spite of the presence of the Fatimid state in Egypt and its control over all its boundaries north and south do not find a significant effect of the common areas of Lower and perhaps the reason lies in this that the Arab migration to Egypt, which followed by a series with the movement of Islamic conquest settled in the south and centered it, and north to that time was composed of a mixture of people who are non-Arab origin.

 
There were places and cities in Egypt suspended on the upper. Qeft city, which was restricted to Alevis from the days of Imam Ali and the generosity of God's face.

 
The Shiite communities in Cairo, and less frequent as time, conditions in the neighborhood of al-Hussein and were mostly of Shiites coming to Egypt for stability. Who were brought from the Levant and Persia, Iraq and elsewhere, are still remnants of these families in Egypt until today

.One historian tells the Persians that the Shiites would have preferred housing near the scene, demonstrating in Al-Husseini and his birth Decorative and luxurious banquets great sorrow and grieve him famous, and they meet at the home they take to it and wants one of them felt pity in Farsi Al al-Bayt.

 
The long processions of Shiite commemoration of Ashura until recently and it seems to processions of the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, which had the in-late chance for the emergence of a Shiite but limited

Despite the campaigns waged by the ideological blockade Ayyubid Egyptians to erase the bias of the parameters of their souls, and deliberately eliminating customs and traditions of Shiite special seasons and holidays, although it remained a lot of customs and traditions of Shi'ite Egyptians inherited generation after generation until our time. It became part of the customs and traditions of the Egyptian character, and that the existence of such customs and traditions even today demonstrates a clear indication that the Shia continued presence in the Egyptian reality despite the oppression and opacity. .

 Among the remaining Shiite customs in Egypt today
Ashura

 
Though Saladin has been around from the sad anniversary to the memory of happy and continued Egyptians celebrate them in their own way, so there is the memory of the celebration night of the fifteenth of August, usually a Shiite still remain marked by the Sufi orders today, and there is celebration Islamic New Year are usually invented by the Fatimids and still continues to this day. Usually in the acquisition of Ramadan lanterns and played by boys in the streets of the Shia traditions which are still practiced in Ramadan has moved from Egypt to other countries.

 At the level names
Is still the name "master" of the names circulating in Egypt. This is still the name given to elders and notables of the people honor and ramp door here. So and so said to Mr. and Mrs. So and so, the name of Mr. Hu actually a ceremonial associate to supervise the family of the house is not only to release supervision only.

 Said to Mrs. or Ms. Zainab al-Husayn, or precious or Mr. or Mr. Omar Makram Tahtawi, but that the Egyptians Ohaauha including ramp from the door of their stay and status. . In addition to the name of Mr. There is the name of Ali, Hassan and Hussein and the Egyptians Astshala letters to the pronunciation of Hassan and Hussein. These are the names of the most common names in Egypt for men, while for women there is a name, Fatima and Zeinab, tranquility and precious, and others.

In the area of ​​foods are still many Egyptians are boycotting the rabbits do not eat the forbidden in the doctrine of the Shia.

 
On the other hand, there was a standing insult to the Shia Egypt began with the Ayyubid residues still reluctance among the common folk without understanding its meaning in a saying of anger from someone, "O son of rejectionist." . An insult derived from the label Shiites Balruad .