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Excerpt from A Wife Out of Egypt
Egypt, like Tunis, is still inhabited by a race, neither numerous nor powerful now, which has seen all the dynas ties of history come and go. The Copts - eu Arab way of saying Egyptians Egypt is the land of G ts or Copts -are the descendants of the men who hewe wood and drew water for the Pharaohs, for conquerors like Darius the Persian, the Macedonian Ptolemies, the Romans, and the Arabs, and are the intellectual hewers and drawers of modern Egypt. Like the Berbers of Tunis, they were mightily oppressed by Roman and Byzantine masters for not coming into the orthodox religion; like the Berbers, they thought that their lot could not be worse under the Arab conqueror, and stood by sullenly while their masters were conquered, though their help would have made the Arab conquest impossible.
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Egypt, like Tunis, is still inhabited by a race, neither numerous nor powerful now, which has seen all the dynas ties of history come and go. The Copts - eu Arab way of saying Egyptians Egypt is the land of G ts or Copts -are the descendants of the men who hewe wood and drew water for the Pharaohs, for conquerors like Darius the Persian, the Macedonian Ptolemies, the Romans, and the Arabs, and are the intellectual hewers and drawers of modern Egypt. Like the Berbers of Tunis, they were mightily oppressed by Roman and Byzantine masters for not coming into the orthodox religion; like the Berbers, they thought that their lot could not be worse under the Arab conqueror, and stood by sullenly while their masters were conquered, though their help would have made the Arab conquest impossible.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Norma Octavia Lorimer
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ISBN - 9780484828512
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 251
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Author
Norma Octavia Lorimer
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ISBN - 9781330124543
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 253
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