id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3564 Egyptians - Wikipedia .html text/html 16363 1448 67 He also co-founded with his contemporary Ali Mubarak, the architect of the modern Egyptian school system, a native Egyptology school that looked for inspiration to medieval Egyptian scholars like Suyuti and Maqrizi, who studied ancient Egyptian history, language and antiquities.[75] Tahtawi encouraged his compatriots to invite Europeans to come and teach the modern sciences in Egypt, drawing on the example of Pharaoh Psamtek I who had enlisted the Greeks' help in organizing the Egyptian army.[citation needed] Although Arabic was spoken in parts of Egypt in the pre-islamic era such as the Eastern Desert and Sinai,[92] Coptic was the Language of the majority of Egyptians residing in the Nile Valley. Goldschmidt, Arthur (1988), Modern Egypt: The formation of a nation state, ISBN 9780865311824, Among the peoples of the ancient Near East, only the Egyptians have stayed where they were and remained what they were, although they have changed their language once and their religion twice. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3564.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3564.txt