المراسم الجنائزية في مصر في عصر سلاطين المماليك (648-923ه 1250-1517م)‎

الملخص EN

This study aims to identify customs and traditions that were made by people of Egypt starting by the will through washing of the dead then taking and shrouding the deceased to the Chapel and praying on it and going to the cemetery to bury him and Reading Qurʼaan over the grave.

The study wonders about their variety and diversity, and what the position of the State and scholars is, beside other questions that researcher will try to answer within the study.

The researcher used history approach in all of its tools of statistic, analysis and extrapolation.

The findings of the study, were displayed at the end.

One of them was that the diversity and variability of these customs was due to population diversity caused by successive migrations (from the Eastern Muslim world) after the fall of Baghdad (656H/1258A.D), and (Form the western Muslim world) after the fall of the Andalusian cities one after the other, beside wars and tribulations among Muslim rulers in Morocco, Egypt and Sudan which resutted in Coptic, Al-Ahbash, Arabs, Armenians, Turkish, Moroccan and Andalusian walgraksh, Mongols and others.

These different items carried many customs and traditions for funerals that we will try to disclose as much as possible.

People of wealth of that era had also brought in a number of Customs and traditions to differentiate them from others.

The study sees that some of these customs and traditions are contrary to sharee’ah of Islam.

Thatʼs why clerics opposed those practices.

And despite scholors, anecdotal efforts and the State actions to restrain those practices, many of them continued to this day, while some have disappeared, either for lack of money or for the extinction of the supporting elements.