%0 Journal Article
%T Quand Le Caire se r¨¦v¨¨le copte¡­ When Cairo shows herself Coptic¡­ Features and Issues of Coptic Social Practices in Contemporary Cairo
%A Anne-Sophie Vivier
%J Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la M¨¦diterran¨¦e
%D 2012
%I Universit¨¦ de Provence
%R 10.4000/remmm.2809
%X Cette ¨¦tude d¨¦sire cerner la nature du rapport de la communaut¨¦ copte orthodoxe ¨¤ l¡¯espace dans la ville du Caire, et dans quelle mesure celui-ci est influenc¨¦ par le mouvement du Renouveau copte (fin xixe ¨C xxe si¨¨cle) et ses diverses aspirations. Si la r¨¦partition de l¡¯habitat copte, exempte de toute ghetto sation mais non d¡¯une certaine concentration, semble plut t plonger ses racines dans un pass¨¦ plus lointain, remontant ¨¤ la p¨¦riode m¨¦di¨¦vale puis ottomane, la forte communautarisation des pratiques de sociabilit¨¦ autour des paroisses de quartier, semble, elle, ¨ºtre le fruit direct du Renouveau. Il en va de m¨ºme des grandes constructions religieuses de ces derni¨¨res d¨¦cennies qui s¡¯efforcent de marquer la pr¨¦sence copte tout en op¨¦rant une appropriation symbolique du territoire cairote, quoique le Renouveau s¡¯inscrive l¨¤ dans la droite ligne du pass¨¦ et de la Tradition, qui, d¨¦j¨¤, parsem¨¨rent Le Caire de nombreux rep¨¨res chr¨¦tiens. The scope of the present paper is to define the nature of the relation of the Coptic Orthodox community to the space in the city of Cairo, in an attempt to find out in what manner it is influenced by the Coptic Revival Movement (end 19th ¨C 20th c.) and its various aspirations. The distribution of the Coptic habitat is the result of a long history ¨C medieval and Ottoman; while a certain concentration of the Coptic community is surely observable, it is also true that it is exempted of any serious tendency to ghettoize itself. On the other side, the strong communitarian character of the practices of sociability, noticeable around the quarter parishes, seems to be the direct result of the Revival. This is also true as regards the great religious edifices of the last decades, which are strongly marking the Coptic presence, operating in the same time a symbolic appropriation of Cairo¡¯s territory. This is indicative of the Revival¡¯s historical continuity with a long tradition that had already inseminated Cairo with an important number of Christian sites.
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