Beni Mur (Arabic: بني مر, also spelled Bani Murr) is an Egyptian town in Upper Egypt located 8 kilometers north of the city of Asyut.

Beni Mur بني مر Bani Murr
Beni Mur Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 27°13′25″N 31°11′35″E
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Asyut Governorate
Time zone	UTC+2 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	+3

According to local tradition, the town is originally named after the prominent tribe of Beni Mur who hailed from the Hejaz region, and settled in Egypt sometime during the Muslim conquest of North Africa, and are attributed with promoting the Classical Arabic language and early teachings of Islam.[1][2]

The former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser's father was born in 1888 in Beni Mur.[3]

Beni Mur is the site of the Church of Saint George which is visited annually on 1 May by local Coptic pilgrims. The church is small, with two altars, dedicated to Saint George and the Mary.[4] A small mosque was built in the town in 1898 and the first primary school was opened in 1900, consisting of a single room.[5]

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• Aburish, Said K. (2004), Nasser, the Last Arab, New York City: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0-312-28683-5
• Joesten, Joachim (1974), Nasser: The Rise to Power, Long Acre, London: Odhams Press Limited, OCLC 317256563
• Meinardus, Otto Friedrich (2002), Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity, Cairo: American Univ in Cairo Press, ISBN 977-424-757-4
• Stephens, Robert Henry (1972), Nasser: A Political Biography, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-21224-7

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