Why do people in Egypt now believe in Allah instead of their Egyptian Gods?
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The Egyptians that built the pyramids aren’t the same Egyptians that are in Egypt now. They aren’t even the same Egyptians that had Cleopatra as their Pharoah.
The Egyptians that built the pyramids and other tombs like that are were the ones who developed that religion, and the pyramids were build as early at 2700 BC.
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, and Ptolemy was put in charge. The Greeks tended to explain other culture’s gods as their own gods, but in disguise, so the Egyptian religion survived, but from here it has a lot of Greek influences.
Around 30 BC, the Romans conquered Egypt, further influencing their culture, but the Egyptian gods did survive in some capacity.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Egypt fell under the influence of Arab powers. While Europe was entering the dark ages,the Islamic world was entering a golden age. In 641 AD, Muslim Arabs come to Egypt. Since they are doing so well in this time, it spread quickly across Africa and into Southeast Asia, and even into Spain.
The Ottoman Empire even held the territory from the beginning 16th century to the end of the 18th century.
TL;DR Muslims showed up 1400 years ago and haven’t left.
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