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444: 93: 466: 315:, wrote with regards to the Egyptian fellah: “...no amount of alien blood has so far succeeded in destroying the fundamental characteristics, both physical and mental, of the ‘dweller of the Nile mud,' i.e. the fellah, or tiller of the ground who is today what he has ever been." He would rephrase stating, "the physical type of the Egyptian fellah is exactly what it was in the earliest dynasties. The invasions of the Babylonians, Hyksos, Ethiopians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Turks, have had no permanent effect either on their physical or mental characteristics." 213: 257: 304: 36: 625: 334:
research on the life of Upper Egyptian farmers and concluded that there were observable continuities between the cultural and religious beliefs and practices of the
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in Egypt was much higher than it is now in the early 20th century, before large numbers migrated into urban towns and cities. In 1927, anthropologist
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houses, like their ancient ancestors. In 2005, they comprised some 60 percent of the total Egyptian population.
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synonymously with "indigenous Egyptian". Also, when a Christian Egyptian (
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In 2003, the fellahin were still leading humble lives and living in
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Farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa
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For the Arabic word for "success" in the context of Islam, see
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was also applied to native people from several regions in the
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Due to a continuity in beliefs and lifestyle with that of the
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During the 19th century, some Muslim Fellah families from
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was used to refer to the majority native peasantry of the
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Mahdi, Kamil A.; Würth, Anna; Lackner, Helen (2007).
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and connecting to their lands was different from the
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Falah
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Arabic
farmer
agricultural
Middle East
North Africa
Arabic
Ancient Egyptians
Egyptian cotton
jellabiya
Egyptian slang

Cairo Governorate
peasants
farmers
effendi
tenant farmers

Arab conquest of Egypt
agriculture
Jews
Greeks

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