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Colla, Elliot. 2007. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity. Duke University Press.

Doyen, Wendy Elizabeth. 2007. Presenting Egypt's Past: archaeology and identity in Egyptian museum practice.  MA thesis, museology, University of Washington, 2007. Egypt's postcolonial national identity the attitude toward Egypt's past as revealed through various aspects (exhibitions, administration, etc.) of Egyptian museums. Available on-line

Dykstra, Darrell. 1994. Pyramids, prophets, and progress: ancient Egypt in the writings of 'Ali Mubarak. Journal of the American Oriental Society 114:  54-65. The difficulties and successes of medieval and modern Egyptians fitting the pharaonic past into their Islamic heritage.

Grinsell, L. V.  1947.  The folklore of ancient Egyptian monuments. Folk-Lore 58 (December, 1947):  ??-??. Beliefs among the modern Egyptians.

NEW 8/08: Haarmann, Ulrich. 1978. Die Sphinx: synkretistische Volksreligiosität im spätmittelalterlichen islamischen Ägypten. Saeculum 24:367-384. <http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4619/>.

Haarman, Ulrich. 1996. Medieval Muslim perceptions of pharaonic Egypt. In: Ancient Egyptian Literature: history and forms. Ed. Antonio Loprieno. Leiden: E.J. Brill = Probleme der Ägyptologie 10: 605-627. The conflicting attitudes towards the pharaonic past expressed by Muslim writers.

Haikal, Fayza. 2003. Egypt's past regenerated by its own people. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 123-138. Ancient Egypt in modern Egyptian literature, performing arts, visual arts, and architecture.

Hassan, F. A. 1998. Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt. In: Archaeology under Fire. Ed. L. Meskell. London: Routledge: 200-216.

Hassan, Fekri A. 2003. Selling Egypt: encounters at Kahn el-Khalili. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 111-122. The downscale trinket market in Cairo: souvenirs as desireable objects, the market as tourist area.

James, T.G.H.  1992.  Egypt: the living past.  London: British Museum Press/Egyptian State Information Service. The influence of the environment on Egyptian culture ancient and modern, and the persistence of ancient cultural practice in modern Egypt.

Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal. 1993. Miroirs du Passé. Genève: Société d'Égyptologie (= Cahiers de la Société d'Égyptologie 2). The survival of certain practices from pharaonic into modern times in Egypt, especially related to disease and death, fertility and birth.

Ray, John. 1994.  Osiris in Mediaeval Egypt. In: The Unbroken Reed. Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt in Honour of A.F. Shore. Ed. Christopher Eyre, Anthony Leahy, Lisa Montagno Leahy. London: The Egypt Exploration Society = Occasional Publications, 11:273-280. The story of Osiris can be identified in the Arabic folktale of Al-Zir.

Reid, Donald M. 1985. Indigenous Egyptology: the decolonization of a profession? Journal of the American Oriental Society 105.2 (April-June):233-246.

Reid. Donald Malcolm. 2002. Whose Pharaohs? archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Reid, Donald Malcolm.  2003.  Egyptian views of the pharaohs from Muhammad Ali to Nasser.  Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 184 (Fall/Winter): 1, 3-10.

NEW 8/08: Roemer, Hans Robert. 1985. Der Islam und das Erbe der Pharaonen: neuere Erkenntnisse zu einem alten Thema. In:  Ägypten, Dauer und Wandel: Symposium anl. d. 75jährigen Bestehens des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Kairo am 10. und 11. Okt. 1982. Pp. 123-129. Mainz: von Zabern. Available online <http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4501/>.

Selim, S. 2001. The new Pharaonism: nationalist thought and the Egyptian village novel, 1967-1977. Arab Studies Journal 8:10-24.

Wood, Michael.  1998.  The use of the pharaonic past in modern Egyptian nationalism. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 35: 179-196.


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