Medieval Arab writers, including al-Maqrīzī, call the Sphinx “balhib” and “bilhaw”, which suggest a Coptic influence. The modern Egyptian Arabic name is أبو الهول (Abū al Hūl. In English – The Terrifying One.
El-Macrisi (al-Maqrīzī), in XIV century reports about a man with a name Saim-el-Dahr, who gone to the pyramids with intention "to repair some religious mistakes" and had smashed the face of the Abul-Hol. After that, the sands engulfed the fertile soil of the Egypt, and the people refer this to the violation over the Abul-Hol.
Traditional explanation is that Quran does not permits human portraits. But this syllogism does not explain why such intervention was done only with Great Sphinx and not with many male statues in Egypt!? And with many other smaller sphinxes?! The things come into places when we accept that the statue is believed to be female, and this is already too! As orthodox worshiper, Dahr was obliged to repair the religious mistakes.
Now, viewed from a distance when the day is plenty of lighting, Sphinx is seen as girl with light kind of “burqa”, traditional for the Muslim women.
El-Macrisi (al-Maqrīzī), in XIV century reports about a man with a name Saim-el-Dahr, who gone to the pyramids with intention "to repair some religious mistakes" and had smashed the face of the Abul-Hol. After that, the sands engulfed the fertile soil of the Egypt, and the people refer this to the violation over the Abul-Hol.
Traditional explanation is that Quran does not permits human portraits. But this syllogism does not explain why such intervention was done only with Great Sphinx and not with many male statues in Egypt!? And with many other smaller sphinxes?! The things come into places when we accept that the statue is believed to be female, and this is already too! As orthodox worshiper, Dahr was obliged to repair the religious mistakes.
Now, viewed from a distance when the day is plenty of lighting, Sphinx is seen as girl with light kind of “burqa”, traditional for the Muslim women.
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An woman wearing a niqab in the United Arab Emirates
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