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  2. Islamization of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Islamization of Egypt occurred after the seventh-century Muslim conquest, in which the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate seized control of Egypt from the Christian dominated Byzantine Empire. Egypt and other conquered territories in the Middle East gradually underwent a large-scale conversion from Christianity to Islam , motivated in part by a ...

  3. Arab conquest of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Arab conquest of Egypt, led by the army of Amr ibn al-As, took place between 639 and 642 AD and was overseen by the Rashidun Caliphate. [1] It ended the seven-century-long Roman period in Egypt that had begun in 30 BC and, more broadly, the Greco-Roman period that had lasted about a millennium.

  4. Music of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    During the Abbasid and Ottoman dynasty Egypt was one of the main musical hubs in the middle east and therefore after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 Egypt became the capital of music in the Arabic-speaking world where classical instruments such as the oud, qanun, and ney were widely used. The typical takht (ensemble) consisted of an Oud ...

  5. Música Nueva - Wikipedia

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    Música Nueva (Spanish for "New Music") is a Spanish online music magazine published in Valencia. Its complete title is " Música Nueva, Noticias y Novedades " (" New Music, the latest music news "). History and profile

  6. Category:Music of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Български; Boarisch; Čeština; Cymraeg; Dansk; الدارجة; Deutsch; Eesti; Español; Euskara ...

  7. Arabic in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Egypt and other conquered territories in the Middle East underwent a large scale gradual conversion from Christianity to Islam, accompanied by jizya for those who refused to convert. [29] Islam became the dominant faith by the 10th to 12th centuries, and Arabic replaced Coptic as the vernacular language and Greek as the official language. [30]

  8. Salma Ya Salama (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Salma Ya Salama" (Arabic: سالمة يا سلامة) is a song by Dalida from 1976, based on the original 1918 song by Sayed Darwish. The track became one of the singer's biggest hits and a remix, released in 1997, was certified silver in France.

  9. Nueva canción - Wikipedia

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    Nueva canción (European Spanish: [ˈnweβa kanˈθjon], Latin American Spanish: [ˈnweβa kanˈsjon]; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics.