Egypt was majority Coptic and Christian till the 13th century

and Coptic was still being spoken in the 17th century

The church does this annoying thing, to bolster our numbers, it counts Ethiopians and Syrians who follow the church and it triggers the fuck out of me

Egyptian government estimates around 5-9 million of us, so I mean, we're still here

ye

how did copts become such a minority

did muslims outbreed

did ppl convert

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Surah At-Tawba
9:31
They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah, and [also] the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they were not commanded except to worship one God; there is no deity except Him. Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Him.

A combination of both:

Mamluks were pretty oppresive, that combined with the Jizya forced a lot of the poorer population to convert since they could not afford to pay it.

That population then mixed with the Arabs, Circassians and later the Turks to constitute the Egyptian Muslim population today.

i thought jizya and zakah goes to the poor

hmmmmm

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Jizya is mostly used on military spending

Mamluks were a meme

They took a bunch of Copts,Circassians and a bunch of Slavs, made a knightly class

and yeah

lmao

abbasid stronk

Mamluks were based and stronk

are you arab

i think if u were hella poor u didnt have to pay jizya

Why people spell it "Mamluk" and not Mameluke.

I hate those fucking neo-spellings for islamic terms.

It's spelled mamluk

Since recently.

Mameluke is a traditional English name.

It's still used in other European languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mameluke_sword

The weapon is still called like that.

Mamluk means "owned"

Cuz mamluks were slaves

Slavery in islam is so weird that it wouldn't be called slavery to anyone who isn't a muslim very weird

its more of a servant

better than a butler

he gets to wear same clothes as you

and eat with you

and you shouldnt call him slave