Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Mohammad MohammadiPour ¹
• Fatemeh JanAhmadi ²

¹ M.A in History/Tarbiat e Modares University

² Asociated Professor of History

Abstract

The market, as the economic pillar of the urban system, has a long history in Egyptian civilization. The presence of Muslim governors in the first few centuries in Egypt affected the change of the markets and even their economic form. The main concern of the authors in this research is to find the answer to this basic question, what were the socio-religious functions of Islamic Egyptian markets during the era of Muslim governors? Library searches and the study of written sources based on the method of historical studies, i.e. the descriptive and analytical method based on inference and analogy, showed that the development of the location of the space for the formation of markets as an important pillar of social and civilizational life in Egypt provides a favorable ground for the holding and expansion of national rituals and religious has provided. The establishment of important markets in the vicinity of the mosque, especially the mosques, has led to the continuity of economy and religion. An interwoven set of religious functions such as holding Quran reading meetings and memorizing it, holding Friday prayers, establishing economic institutions such as Hasba as a regulator of economic actions in the market, as well as the formation of guilds and guild organizations within the market and specialized professions are properly manifested in the markets of Egypt. In addition, the role of the vast space of the bazaar in creating large public gatherings against the political rule and also the presence of bazaars in social riots due to the financial pressures of the governors, on the other hand, reflected the social roles of the bazaar and the bazaars in the Egyptian society of the era of the governors.

Keywords

• Market
• Egypt
• occupations and guilds
• Social function-religious function