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Change in Religion in a Resettled Nubian Community, Upper Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Hussein M. Fahim
Hussein M. Fahim
Affiliation:
Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt
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The question of change in religion in Middle Eastern communities has been recently studied by several researchers. A review of these studies reveals three main approaches to the problem. The first approach, used principally by orientalists, treats the problem in terms of either history or theology. Among the most significant of these studies are those of H. A. R. Gibb (1938) and Bernard Lewis (1964), who hold that contact between the secular world of the West and the Muslim sacred way of life has brought elements of secularism into the Islamic religion.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 163 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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