Muscha (Asyut Governorate)

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Muscha
Muscha (Egypt)
Muscha
Muscha
Coordinates 27 ° 7 ′  N , 31 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 27 ° 7 ′  N , 31 ° 14 ′  E
Basic data
Country Egypt

Governorate

Asyut
ISO 3166-2 EG-AST

Muscha ( Arabic موشا Mūschā , DMG Mūšā , or English Musha ) is a place in Asyut in the governorate of the same name in Central Egypt . It is the birthplace of the Islamist brothers Sayyid and Mohammed Qutb , both supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood founded in1928 by Hasan al-Banna in Egypt . The first mosque in the village is the ʿAbd-al-Fattāḥ mosque, the place is also known for its cult of saints ( Maulid ). Thepoet Bakr Musa, knownfor his award-winning poem al-Quds (Jerusalem) ( بكر موسى) (1935–1978) also comes from the town. It is one of the areas with the highest proportion of Coptic Christians .

literature

  • Sayyid Qutb, John Calvert, William E Shepard: A child from the village . 1st edition. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2004, ISBN 1-936190-70-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - sample reading).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicholas Hopkins: Sufi Organization in Rural Asyut: The Rifa'iyya in Musha . In: Nicholas Hopkins, Reem Saad (ed.): Upper Egypt: identity and change . American University in Cairo Press, Cairo / New York 2004, ISBN 977-424-864-3 , pp. 141–156 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - excerpt).