Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 write by Kurt J. Werthmuller. This book was released on 2010. Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty in the early thirteenth century. Kurt Werthmuller introduces new scholarship that illuminates the varied relationships between medieval Christians of Egypt and their Muslim neighbors. Demonstrating that the Coptic community was neither passive nor static, the author discusses the active role played by the Copts in the formation and evolution of their own identity within the wider political and societal context of this period. In particular, he examines the boundaries between Copts and the wider Egyptian society in the Ayyubid period in three "in-between spaces": patriarchal authority, religious conversion, and monasticism.
An In-between Space
An In-between Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An In-between Space write by Kurt J.. Werthmuller. This book was released on 2007. An In-between Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The present study will examine the identity of the Coptic Christian community of Egypt during the latter years of the Ayyubid dynasty (1171-1250 CE) in that area. In particular, it will consider the context surrounding the patriarchate of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, whose archived correspondence will provide core documentary evidence to illustrate and inform each "in-between" space of communal boundaries shared between the Copts and their Ayyubid rulers: those socio-political spaces which shaped that community's identity. This examination will make use of a variety of narrative sources, including noteworthy Coptic and Muslim chronicles of the Islamic Middle Period, in order to inform and support its analysis. It is the central argument of this study that while Ayyubid polity and Islamic tradition maintained a set of legal boundaries to surround the Copts as ahl al-dhimma ("people of the covenant"), two general factors actually determined the efficacy and enforcement of those boundaries: the circumstances, character, and political priorities of individual Ayyubid rulers; and the Copts' own active participation in the negotiation of their cultural, political, and social limitations."--Leaf viii.
Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD
Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD write by Tarek M. Muhammad. This book was released on 2021-03-01. Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains 15 papers which were presented by specialists from Europe and Egypt at two conferences held at Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2014 and 2015. Eight of the articles deal with the history of Late Antique Egypt in its manifold aspects, from monasticism and Coptic manuscripts, to the organization of the Arab conquest. The other seven contributions provide new writings from that historical period published here for the first time, or give new readings of texts earlier known as inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, and offer a close-up look at the historical setting outlined in the first part of this book.
From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt
From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt write by Maged S. A. Mikhail. This book was released on 2014-08-25. From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period by drawing on a wide array of literary and documentary sources, Maged Mikhail stresses the cultural and institutional developments that punctuated the histories of Christians and Muslims in the province under early Islamic rule. From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt traces how the largely agrarian Egyptian society responded to the influx of Arabic and Islam, the means by which the Coptic Church constructed its sectarian identity, the Islamisation of the administrative classes and how these factors converged to create a new medieval society. The result is a fascinating and essential study for scholars of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt.
Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean
Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean write by Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella. This book was released on 2015-01-27. Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean Diego R. Sarrió Cucarella provides an exposition and analysis of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī’s (d. 684/1285) Splendid Replies to Insolent Questions (al-Ajwiba al-fākhira ‘an al-as’ila al-fājira). Written in response to an apology for Christianity by the Melkite Bishop of Sidon, Paul of Antioch, the Splendid Replies is among the most extensive and most important medieval Muslim refutations of Christianity, and the primary significance of this study is to provide detailed access to its argumentation and intellectual context for the first time in a western language. Moreover, the Introduction and Conclusion creatively situate the work within the challenges of modern-day Christian-Muslim dialogue.
