Egypt Egypt, (Arabic, Misr), a country in the northeastern corner of Africa, linking Asia with the rest of Africa. The rugged Sinai peninsula joins Egypt with the Levant and Arabia, while the Nile River basin connects it with sub-Saharan Africa. In an essay on Egypt's destiny, President Gamal Abdel Nasser pointed out that his country is influential in three worlds. The first is that of the Arab nations; the second, the larger world of the …
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…ows a man to take four wives, and it stipulates the conditions for divorce. Sufism and Sufi brotherhoods give Islam its diversity. Sufism, the Islamic form of mysticism, arose within Islam to satisfy some of the emotional needs of the people, and yet it was accepted by the orthodox. In town and countryside, Egyptian Muslims are organized into brotherhoods (tariqas), most of which were founded by religious teachers or scholars noted for their piety and