"Fellahin", throughout the Middle East in the Islamic periods, referred to native villagers and farmers. It is translated as "peasants" or "farmers".
Fellahin were distinguished from the effendi (land-owning … See more

In the Levant, specifically in Palestine, Jordan and Hauran, the term fellahin was used to refer to the majority native peasantry of the countryside.
The term fallah was … See more

• Fellahin with hoes in the fields near Cairo
• Fellahin using a traditional agricultural plow See more

• Egypt's forgotten fellahin See more

After the Arab conquest of Egypt, they called the common masses of indigenous peasants fellahin (peasants or farmers) because their ancient work of agriculture and connecting to their lands was different from the Jews who were traders and the Byzantine See more

During the nineteenth century, some Muslim Fellah families from Ottoman Syria settled in Dobruja, a region now divided between Bulgaria and Romania, then part of the See more

• Copts, Egyptian Christian Orthodox
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