Abū Tīg - Abū Tīg

El Farghal Mosque in Abū Tīg
Abū Tīg · ‏أبو تيج‎
GovernorateAsyūṭ
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70.969 (2006)
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Abū Tīg

Abu Tig, also Bu Tig, Abusive, Abu / Abou Teeg / Tig / Tij, Arabic:أبو تيج‎, Abū Tīǧ, is the third largest city in egyptian Governorate Asyūṭ. It gained its fame through the el-Farghal mosque and the annual celebration at the beginning of July Mūlid of the Sufi saint el-Farghal.

background

location

The city of Abū Tīg is located in the south of the governorate Asyūṭ on the western bank of the Nile, about 15 miles south of Asyūṭ.

history

The Dominican Johann Michael Wansleben (1635–1679) mentions that he was passing through to Ṭahṭā passed the ancient ruins of Abū Tīg.[1] Nevertheless, the history of a previous Pharaonic settlement is in the dark. There are only a few finds from the city or its surroundings such as B. the statue of Hori, today in the Egyptian Museum Cairo (CG 585 = JE 27692),[2] and a fragment of rose granite from Queen Hatshepsut's southern obelisk.[3] The French Egyptologist Georges Daressy (1864–1938) suggested that a fragment of the Hathor Shrine Per-Schena (Pr-šneʿ) also comes from Abū Tīg, but this is rather unlikely.[4][5]

From the Greeks Abotis called, is the name from Coptic times Ⲧⲁⲡⲟⲑⲩⲕⲏ, Tapothykē, handed down in different versions. The French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) first suggested that this name derives from the Greek word Ἀποθίκε derives,[6] the magazine means. The modern Arabic name Abū Tīg is also derived from this name.

As Timm (see literature) explains, bishops of the Diocese of Achmīm and Abū Tīg have been known since the 13th century. Neither Abū el-Makārim (12th century) still el-Maqrīzī (1364–1442) named churches in Abū Tīg. Abū el-Makārim explained, however, that in a church south of Būtīg (= Abū Tīg) the corpses of the two saints Pachomius (Pachom) and Sinithius (Schenute) were in two boxes.[7] In the monastery list of el-Maqrīzī, the monastery of the apostles is mentioned under No. 53, which belongs to the diocese of Abū Tīg.[7] In 1731 a (Catholic) Franciscan monastery was built in Abū Tīg.[8] Founded in 1872 by Léontine Jarre (1830-1892), the Carmelite Order of St. Joseph came to Egypt in 1931 and had a primary school in Abū Tīg.[9]

The French Egyptologist and Coptologist Émile Amélineau (1850–1915) wrote in his 1893 Geographythat Abū Tīg had a post office, a telegraph station, a river port for steamers and a school. 10,770 inhabitants lived in the city (1886 census).[10] In Meyer's travel guide to Egypt from 1914, around 12,000 inhabitants are named.[11]

In 1963, Muḥammad Ramzī reported from tradition that in Abū Tīg there was a large old mosque, schools, steam baths, a bazaar district (Qeisārīya) and hotels, a judge and a large weekly market. Abū Tīg has been the capital of the Markaz Abū Tīg district of the same name since 1890.[12]

The city now lives from trade and industries such as wood and cotton processing. According to the 1986, 1996 and 2006 census, the city had 48,518, 59,474 and 70,969 inhabitants, respectively; in the district of the same name about half a million inhabitants.

Aḥmad and Muḥammad el-Farghal

The most famous sons of the city include Aḥmad and Muḥammad el-Farghal. The Shiite family once came from the Hejaz and arrived after their expulsion Iraq, Morocco and Egypt. Aḥmad el-Farghal settled around 808 AH (1405) in the village of Banī Samīʿ / Banī Sumaiʿ,بني سميع, Which is about four kilometers west of Abū Tīg. His son Muḥammad al-Farghal was born in 810 AH (1407) born and died 860 AH (1455). Muḥammad initially worked as a shepherd. Muḥammad was venerated as a Sheikh and Sufi saint and was the Sultan of Upper Egypt,سلطان الصعيد‎, Sulṭān aṣ-Ṣaʿīd, known. Various miracles have been attributed to him. The best known is the rescue of a girl who was devoured by a crocodile. El-Farghal ordered the crocodile to spit the girl out again.[13]

getting there

City map of Abū Tīg

By plane

The closest airport is the 1 Assiut airportAssiut Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaAssiut Airport (Q2107478) in the Wikidata database(IATA: ATZ), which is rarely flown to.

By train

To the west of the city is on the Cairo – Aswan route 2 Abū Tīg Railway Station, ‏محطة قطار أبو تيج‎, Maḥaṭṭat Qiṭār Abū Tīǧ. Basically only regional trains stop here.

In the street

Of Asyūṭ one reaches Abū Tīg after 24 kilometers on a trunk road that runs immediately to the west next to a canal and the railway line. Immediately south of the train station you can go via a 3 bridge Cross a canal and a few meters further on the embankment.

The closest bridge over the Nile is in Asyūṭ. In Abū Tīg there is a car ferry to the east bank (see below).

By bus

Abū Tīg can be reached by minibuses and shared taxis from Asyūṭ from the esch-Schadr bus station. The price is around LE 3.

By boat

Abū Tīg does not have a distinct port. Excursion boats can z. B. in the area of ​​the zoo. There is one further south 4 car ferry (5 East bank) to the island of Sāḥil Salīm,جزيرة ساحل سليم. From there, a bridge leads to the village of the same name, Sāḥil Salīm.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Mosques

  • 1  El Farghal Mosque (‏مسجد الفرغل‎, Masǧid al-Farghal). The mosque with two minarets and the tomb of Sīdī Sheikh Muḥammad el-Farghal and Aḥmad al-Farghal is located in the north of the city in the south in the south of a larger square. The most important architectural file are the two slender minarets. The prayer room is rather simple. Every year in the first half of July, the Mūlid des Holy is celebrated in front of the mosque (see below).(27 ° 2 '47 "N.31 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ E)
  • 2  Tomb mosque of the el-Ashraf family (‏مقر عائلة الأشراف‎, Maqar ʿĀʾilat al-Ashraf). The family grave is located immediately to the east of the el-Farghal mosque.(27 ° 2 '48 "N.31 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ E)

Churches

  • 3  Episcopal Church of St. Apostle Mark (‏مطرانية القديس العظيم مارمرقس الرسول ، كنيسة المرقسية‎, Maṭrānīyat al-Qiddīs al-ʿaẓīm Mār Marqus ar-Rasūl; Kanīsat al-Marqusīya) (27 ° 2 '46 "N.31 ° 18 ′ 58 ″ E)
  • 4  Church of St. Macarius the Great (‏كنيسة القديس العظيم أبو مقار الكبير‎, Kanīsat al-Qiddīs al-ʿaẓīm Abū Maqqār al-Kabīr). Oldest church in town with a Christian cemetery to the north.(27 ° 2 ′ 16 ″ N.31 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ E)
  • 5  Church of St. Virgin Mary (‏كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم‎, Kanīsat as-Saiyida al-ʿAdhrāʾ Maryam) (27 ° 2 '36 "N.31 ° 19 ′ 4 ″ E)

Parks

  • 6  Abu Tig Zoo (‏حديقة حيوان أبو تيج ، حديقة ناصر‎, Ḥadīqat Hayawān Abū Tīǧ; Ḥadīqat Nāṣir, Wet Zoo). Abu Tig Zoo in the Wikipedia encyclopediaAbu Tig Zoo (Q20419085) in the Wikidata database.The simple zoo was created in 1962.(27 ° 3 '12 "N.31 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E)

activities

  • Every year in the first two weeks of July (July 2–16) around two million pilgrims travel to the Mūlid, the festival in honor of the birthday of the Sufi saint Aḥmad el-Farghal (ī), in Abū Tīg. His grave is in the el-Farghal mosque.

shop

kitchen

accommodation

There are hotels in the nearby town Asyūṭ.

health

Practical advice

Post and Telecommunications

  • 2  Post office (‏مكتب بريد أبو تيج‎, Maktab Barīd Abū Tīǧ). The post office is located south of the train station and the level crossing.(27 ° 2 ′ 35 ″ N.31 ° 18 ′ 54 ″ E)

Banks

trips

A visit to Abū Tīg can be combined with visiting other places in the south of the governorate Asyūṭ such as B. the monastery Deir Durunka or the monastery Deir el-Ganādla connect.

literature

  • Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L. B.: Upper egypt: sites. In:Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, statues, reliefs, and paintings; Vol.5. Oxford: Griffith Inst., Ashmolean Museum, 1937, ISBN 978-0-900416-83-5 , P. 4 f; PDF.
  • Timm, Stefan: Abū Tīg. In:Christian Coptic Egypt in Arab times; Vol. 1: A - C. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1984, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 41.1, ISBN 978-3-88226-208-7 , Pp. 57-60.
  • Randall Stewart: Abu Tij. In:Atiya, Aziz Suryal (Ed.): The Coptic Encyclopedia; Vol. 1: Abab - Azar. new York: Macmillan, 1991, ISBN 978-0-02-897023-3 , P. 38.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑P [ère] Vansleb [Wansleben, Johann Michael]: Nouvélle Relation En forme de Iournal, D’Vn Voyage Fait En Egypte: En 1672. & 1673. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1677, P. 367. — Vansleb, F [ather]: The present state of Egypt: or, A new relation of a late voyage into the kingdom, performed in the years 1672 and 1673. London: John Starkey, 1678, P. 221.
  2. ↑Daressy, G [eorges]: Remarques et notes. In:Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (Rec. Trav.), Vol.11 (1889), Pp. 79-95, especially pp. 87 f., doi:10.11588 / diglit.12261.7. — Borchardt, Ludwig: Statues and statuettes of kings and individuals in the Cairo Museum; Vol. 2: Text and plates for nos. 381–653. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1925, Catalog général des antiquités egyptiennes du Musée du Caire; 77.2, P. 140 f., Plate 105.
  3. ↑Daressy, G [eorges]: Remarques et notes. In:Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (Rec. Trav.), Vol.10 (1888), Pp. 139–150, especially p. 142, doi:10.11588 / diglit.12257.12.
  4. ↑Daressy, G [eorges]: Remarques et notes. In:Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (Rec. Trav.), Vol.17 (1895), Pp. 113–120, especially p. 120, doi:10.11588 / diglit.12253.21.
  5. ↑Horst Beinlich: Per-Schena. In:Helck, Wolfgang; Westendorf, Wolfhart (Ed.): Lexicon of Egyptology; Vol. 4: Megiddo - Pyramids. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982, ISBN 978-3-447-02262-0 , Col. 933.
  6. ↑Champollion, Jean François: L’Égypte Sous Les Pharaons Ou Recherches Sur la Géographie, la Religion, la Langue, les Ècritures et l’Histoire de l’Egypte avant l’invasion de Cambyse; Vol.1. Paris: de Bure, 1814, P. 274 f.
  7. ↑ 7,07,1[Abū al-Makārim]; Evetts, B [asil] T [homas] A [lfred] (ed., Transl.); Butler, Alfred J [oshua]: The churches and monasteries of Egypt and some neighboring countries attributed to Abû Sâliḥ, the Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895, P. 253 (fol. 91.a), 316 f. (Monastery list of el-Maqrīzī). Various reprints, e.g. B. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9715986-7-6 .
  8. ↑Colombo, Angelo: Le Origini della gerarchia della Chiesa copta cattolica nel secolo XVIII. Roma: Pont. Inst. Orientalium Studiorum, 1953, Orientalia Christiana analecta; 140, P. 14.
  9. ↑Meinardus, Otto F. A.: Christian Egypt, ancient and modern. Cairo: American University at Cairo Press, 1977 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-977-201-496-5 , P. 572.
  10. ↑Amélineau, É [mile]: La geographie de l’Égypte à l’époque copte. Paris: Impr. National, 1893, P. 11 f.
  11. ↑Egypt and Sudan. Leipzig; Vienna: Bibliogr. Inst., 1914, Meyer's travel books, P. 52.
  12. ↑Ramzī, Muḥammad: al-Qāmūs al-ǧuġrāfī li-’l-bilād al-miṣrīya min ʿahd qudamāʾ al-miṣrīyīn ilā sanat 1945; Vol. 2, Book 4: Mudīrīyāt Asyūṭ wa-Ǧirǧā (title page wa-Ǧirḥā) wa-Qinā wa-Aswān wa-maṣlaḥat al-ḥudūd. Cairo: Maṭbaʿat Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya, 1963, P. 14 (numbers above).
  13. ↑Facebook site of the Association of Descendants of Sultan el-Farghal, contribution dated November 2, 2012.
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