Ahl al-Mantalka
Ahl al-Mantalka (Arab., ‘people of the girdle’). Copts and Syrian Jacobites, so called as a mark of humility (cf. HABIT, RELIGIOUS), but also as a sign of humiliation, from the Muslim insistence that Christians in Egypt should wear a girdle, in order to be identified.
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SUNNI MUSLIM 50 percent
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN (TEWAHDO) 40
percent EASTERN CATHOLIC (EASTERN RITE) AND ROMAN CATHOLIC 5.5 percent
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