Why do people in Egypt now believe in Allah instead of their Egyptian Gods?
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Why do the Iranians not believe in ancient Mesopotamian gods? Why do the Scandinavians not believe in Norse gods? Why do the Greeks and Italians not believe in the Olympian gods? The answer is the same. Times change, gods change. In the case of Egypt particularly they had a rather complicated and convoluted religious system that was not unified. Each region placed different importance on each god and new cults would form with new gods taking over the older ones. Ancient Egyptian religion was fractured, with each region having their own version slightly different from the others. And the pharaohs were intertwined with the faith as they were considered gods themselves, and each pharaoh belonged to a different cult and promoted their own gods or even their own version of the faith itself.
As you may understand, this system didn’t work too well, and as the Egyptian empire crumbled and lost influence and power it was taken over by Abrahamic religions, so following the ancient Egyptian religion most Egyptians converted to Christianity, and then later with the Muslim conquest the region became mostly muslim. For a very long time Egypt was a very multicultural place having people of many faiths and from many places around the world but eventually they homogenised into what we see today.
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