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Ancient and
modern
traditions
By Minatullah Abbas, Ingy
Nazif and Abdel Rahman
Salah
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So what has changed?
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The themes we chose to discuss
Funerary
beliefs
Religion
Food
Funerary beliefs
Sources:
El-Shohoumi, Nadia. "Burying the Dead-Vivifying the Past: Reflections on Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Rites and Their Parallels in Modern Egypt." Moving Matters :
Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institute in Cairo,
2002. 189-214. Print.
Summary
The different organizations of necropolises during
different times throughout the history of Egypt:
 Modern Egypt.
1. Ptolemaic Period.
2. Ancient Egypt.
Analysis
Ancient Egypt
1. -Embalmer
-Lector priest
2. Mortuary Priest
Ptolemaic Period
1. Embalmer
2. -Libation Priest
-Mortuary
Priest
Modern Egypt
1. -Grave digger
-Reciter of Quran
2. -Grave digger and
assistant
-Guardian of tomb
-Undertaker is cairo
Questions
 Are
these beliefs only related to egypt or is there
any other Ancient civilizations who had the same ?
 Are
the modern Egyptian funerary beliefs only
related to Egypt or are they common among other
nations ?
Isis and Sayyeda Zeinab
Sources:
Abu-zahra, Nadia. "Isis and Al-sayyida: Links to Ancient Egypt." Moving Matters:
Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institution, 2002. 21724. Print.
Haeri Bilgrami, Muna. The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zaynab Bint Ali. Pakistan:
Zahra Publications, 1986. Print.
Summary
This Chapter of the book mainly
presents the two main
characters : Isis and El- Sayyida
Zeinab. Then compares the
cults associated to each one.
Analysis
Introduction,
The ancient cult of Isis and the development of the
Egyptian tradition of al-Sayyida zaynab,
The belief that Al-Sayyida is buried in Cairo is the
cornerstone of her Egyptian tradition,
Al-Sayyida zaynab the most beautiful mother and patron
saint of women,
The assimilation of Indigenous beliefs into Islamic practices,
and
The mawlid
Food
How do we know?
Funerary
context
Reliefs
Texts
Manners & essential food
 Bread
 Old
and beer.
Kingdom text addressed to Kagemni (vizier).
 Instructions
to King Merikare (first Intermediate
period).
 Hunting.
 Social
classes had an impact on the diet.
What did they eat?
 We
do not have many examples of recipes
 Main
meals at noon and in the evening with a light
meal in the afternoon.
A
lot of import of new plants and species in the
Middle and New Kingdom
 Sugar,
lemon, tomatoes, chili, chicken.
Varied food
 Meat:
 Fish:
mice, beef,
bulti, catfish, Nile barb….
 Fruits:
figs, dates, grapes, watermelons,
pomegranate.
 Vegetables:
 White
beans, lupine beans, lentils…
barley and red barley
Spices
Thyme
Cumin
Fennel
Cinnamon
Fenugreek
What stayed?
 Shamsi
bread, roqaq
 Yeasting techniques in Upper Egypt
 Barley porridge
 Bread in shapes in the Delta (1st Dynasty)
 Kahk?
 Eggs cooked the same but not the same eggs.
 Salted fish for the Harvest Festival (shmow)
 Pumpkin in savory dishes
 Weeka (New Kingdom papyrus)
Weeka
Shamsi
Roqaq
Sources
Ikram, Salima. "Diet." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Ed. Donald
B. Redford. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. 390-95. Print.
Mehdawy, Magda, and Amr Hussein. The Pharaoh's Kitchen: Recipes from
Ancient Egypt's Enduring Food Traditions. N.p.: I.B.Tauris, 2010.
EBL. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Bibliography
Abu-zahra, Nadia. "Isis and Al-sayyida: Links to Ancient Egypt." Moving Matters:
Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institution, 2002. 217-24. Print.
El-Shohoumi, Nadia. "Burying the Dead-Vivifying the Past: Reflections on Ancient Egyptian
Funerary Rites and Their Parallels in Modern Egypt." Moving Matters : Ethnoarcheology in
the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institute in Cairo, 2002. 189-214. Print.
Haeri Bilgrami, Muna. The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zaynab Bint Ali. Pakistan: Zahra
Publications, 1986. Print.
Ikram, Salima. "Diet." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Ed. Donald B.Redford.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. 390-95. Print.
Mehdawy, Magda, and Amr Hussein. The Pharaoh's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Egypt's
Enduring Food Traditions. N.p.: I.B.Tauris, 2010. EBL. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Illustrations
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http://www.egyking.info/2012/12/pictures-of-ancientegyptian-food.html
http://sljglobal.wikispaces.com/anthonyjustin
http://weiszsocialstudies6.wikispaces.com/3.+Ancient+Eg
ypt+and+Nubia
http://case1worker.hubpages.com/hub/AncientEgyptian-Myth-Isis-and-the-Sun-Gods-Secret-Name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature
http://www.wired.com/2013/11/egyptian-mummiesafterlife-diet/
http://www.ancient-egypt.org/index.html
http://outdoorsy.gardenxl.com/2014/03/16/veg-of-theweek-okra/
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http://tanko.ca/?attachment_id=353
http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1
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http://www.tablespoon.com/posts/spicy-sunday-what-iscumin/d052e975-5fdf-440f-8318-1eaede2ab519
http://www.frequency.com/video/how-to-make-roqaqslices/150281565/-/5-595647
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefitsof-cinnamon.html
http://detoxforlife.biz/health-benefits-of-fenugreek/
http://www.rajkamalagro.com/fennel-seeds/
http://www.historel.net/egypte/09egypt.htm
http://lebanesecookbook.blogspot.com/2011/04/mouloukhia-andrice.html
Thank you for
your attention