Doms in Egypt explained

Group:Doms in Egypt
Population:100,000 (estimated)
Langs:Domari, Egyptian Arabic
Rels:Islam (main religion), Christianity (1%)[1]
Related:Romani people, Nawar people, Kawliya
Popplace:Upper Egypt, Cairo and Alexandria

The Dom (دوم) people migrated to the territory of the present day Egypt from South Asia, particularly from Indian Subcontinent, and heavily intermixed with Egyptians. Scholars suggest that their Egyptian admixture later made them known around the world by the vernacular term Gypsies, deriving from the word Egyptian.[2] [3]

Though some of the Dom people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Egypt,[4] historically; Domari in Egypt have intermixed with Egyptians and participated at local musical entertainment at weddings, circumcisions and other celebrations, singing Egyptian traditional songs and dancing in return for money. The Dom people in Egypt or Roma Egyptians include subgroups like Nawar, and Ghagar or Ghaggar (غجر).[5] [6]

The Dom in Egypt are Sunni Muslims, and apart from Egyptian Arabic, they also speak their own Domari language.[7]

Ottoman sources

In Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatnâme of 1668, he explained that the Gypsies from Komotini (Gümülcine) "swear by their heads" their ancestors came from Egypt.[8] Moreover, the sedentary Gypsy groups from the Serres region in Greece believe their ancestors were once taken from Egypt Eyalet by the Ottomans to Rumelia after 1517 to work on the tobacco plantations of Turkish feudals there.[9] Muslim Roma settled in Baranya and the City Pécs at the Ottoman Hungary. After the Siege of Pécs, Muslim Roma and some other Muslims converted to the Catholic faith in the years 1686–1713.[10] The Ghagar a subgroup of the Doms in Egypt, tell that some of them went to Hungary.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Romani, Domari in Egypt .
  2. Web site: 2012-12-07 . Gypsies arrived in Europe 1,500 years ago, genetic study says . 2023-01-19 . the Guardian . en.
  3. Web site: Gypsy, Domari of Egypt. Nehemiahteams.com. 16 July 2022.
  4. Web site: "Homeless, yet at home": Egypt's Domari Ghagar. Egyptianstreets.com. 7 April 2022. 16 July 2022.
  5. Book: Phillips, David J.. Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World. 16 July 2001. William Carey Library. 9781903689059 . 16 July 2022. Google Books.
  6. Book: Berland, Joseph C. . 2004 . Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia . Westport, Connecticut . Praeger Publishers . 0-89789-771-4 . 2013-10-28 .
  7. Web site: Doms of Egypt. Peoplegroups.org. 25 July 2022.
  8. The Earliest Text in Balkan (Rumelian) Romani: A Passage from Evliya Çelebi's Seyah¢a@t na@meh. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. 1. 1. 1991. 1–20. 25 July 2022.
  9. Sedentary Roma (Gypsies): The case of Serres (Greece) . ResearchGate. 10.3828/rs.2011.2 . 2011 . Zachos . Dimitrios . Romani Studies . 21 . 23–56 . 144321480 .
  10. Book: Gattermann, Claus Heinrich. Die Baranya in den Jahren 1686 bis 1713: Kontinuität und Wandel in einem ungarischen Komitat nach dem Abzug der Türken. 25 July 2005. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. 9783938616321 . 25 July 2022. Google Books.
  11. The Gypsies of Egypt . 25228684 . The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . 1856 . 16 . 285–312 . Newbold . Capt .