Controllare il Nilo tramite il sacro: riti per l’inondazione condivisi tra musulmani e cristiani nell’Egitto medievale
Before the construction of the Aswan Dam in 1970, Egyptians have always had to confront the primordial power of the Nile. This struggle caused the emergence of religious strategies, aiming at removing an impending danger; strategies that often went beyond the strict confessional subdivision, to resu...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2019
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | Before the construction of the Aswan Dam in 1970, Egyptians have always had to confront the primordial power of the Nile. This struggle caused the emergence of religious strategies, aiming at removing an impending danger; strategies that often went beyond the strict confessional subdivision, to result in real collaboration and solidarity. The banks of the Nile, and later the building of the Nilometer on the island of Rawḍa, in particular during the Islamic period, frequently turned into sacred places shared by differ-ent religions, in which ancestral rituals, aiming at controlling the fluctuating moods of the river, were to be staged. In these rituals, Muslim saints became protagonists and acted as intercessors between the population of Egypt and God, imploring the floods of the river and abundant harvests. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/ANNALI_STUDI_RELIG_20201907 |