Christians In Muslim Egypt

Author : S. S. Hasan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195138686
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians Versus Muslims in Modern Egypt written by S. S. Hasan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt is the first study of Christian identity politics in contemporary Egypt. S.S. Hasan begins by looking at how the Coptic generation of the 1940s and 1950s remembered, recovered, and imagined the ancient history of Christianity in Egypt in order to weld the Copts into a unified nation, resistant to the growing encroachments of Islam. She argues that this interpretation of history, in which Egyptian martyrs figure prominently, made possible the rebirth of the Coptic church and community - in much the same way as the preservation of Hebrew and the historical memory of Jewish tribulations served the purpose of national reconstruction of the state of Israel."--Jacket

Author : Fikry Andrawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774168703
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt written by Fikry Andrawes and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the most part of their shared history, Copts and Muslims in Egypt have experienced bouts of sectarian tension alternating with peaceful coexistence. Copts and Muslims in Egypt tells the story of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the aftermath of the January 2011 revolution. It begins by describing how the Church of Alexandria came into existence, and created a monastic tradition that would influence the whole of Christendom, before exploring the theological controversies that plagued the Eastern Roman world before the advent of Islam. After bouts of persecution by the Roman emperors, the Copts were strongly opposed by the Melkite Church, but, with the Arab invasion of Egypt in the seventh century, they achieved a measure of independence and individuality that they retained over the centuries. The Copts were also subjected to periods of persecution--by rulers from the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid dynasties, and under the Mamluks--but by and large, a relatively satisfactory form of cohabitation was established. The authors argue that, even if they were occasionally attacked and persecuted, the Copts generally shared the fortunes of their Muslim neighbors, and that religious difference in Egypt was frequently exploited by rulers, both internal and external, for political gain. Copts and Muslims in Egypt provides an engaging and highly readable account of communal relations through key points in Egyptian history.

Author : Lajos Berkes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0979975816
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt written by Lajos Berkes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642–10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By doing so, this book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers results based on a holistic view of the documentary material. The articles of this volume discuss various aspects of change and continuity from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt and offer also the (re)edition of 23 papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. The authors provide a showcase of recent papyrological research on this under-studied, but dynamically evolving field. After an introduction by the editor of the volume that outlines the most important trends and developments of the period, the first two essays shed light on Egypt as part of the Caliphate. The following six articles, the bulk of the volume, deal with the interaction and involvement of the Egyptian population with the new Muslim administrative apparatus. The last three studies of the volume focus on naming practices and language change.

Author : Jāk Tājir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians in Muslim Egypt written by Jāk Tājir and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henrik Lindberg Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857738402
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt written by Henrik Lindberg Hansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik Lindberg Hansen analyzes this relationship, offering an examination of the nature and role of religious dialogue in Egyptian society and politics. Analysing the three main religious organizations and institutions in Egypt (namely the Azhar University, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Coptic Orthodox Church) as well as a range of smaller dialogue initiatives (such as those of CEOSS, the Anglican and Catholic Churches and youth organisations), Hansen argues that religious dialogue involves a close examination of societal relations, and how these are understood and approached. The books includes analysis of the occasions of violence against and dialogue initiatives involving Christian communities in 2011 and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, and thus provides a wide-ranging exploration of the importance of religion in Egyptian society and everyday encounters with a religious other. The book is consequently vital for practitioners as well as researchers dealing with religious minorities in the Middle East and interfaith dialogue in a wider context.

Author : Angie Heo
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297989
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Lives of Saints written by Angie Heo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.

Author : Andrea B. Rugh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566132
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians in Egypt written by Andrea B. Rugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians in the Middle East have come under increasing pressure in recent years with the rise of radical Islam. In Egypt, the large Coptic Christian community has traditionally played an important political and historical role. This book examines Egyptian Christians' responses to sectarian pressures in both national and local contexts.

Author : Febe Armanios
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019974484X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt written by Febe Armanios and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly interested in the early modern period, 1517-1798.

Author : Lajos Berkes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0979975891
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt written by Lajos Berkes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642–10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By doing so, this book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers results based on a holistic view of the documentary material. The articles of this volume discuss various aspects of change and continuity from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt and offer also the (re)edition of 23 papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. The authors provide a showcase of recent papyrological research on this under-studied, but dynamically evolving field. After an introduction by the editor of the volume that outlines the most important trends and developments of the period, the first two essays shed light on Egypt as part of the Caliphate. The following six articles, the bulk of the volume, deal with the interaction and involvement of the Egyptian population with the new Muslim administrative apparatus. The last three studies of the volume focus on naming practices and language change.

Author : Christian Cannuyer
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810929791
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discoveries: Coptic Egypt written by Christian Cannuyer and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt, land of the Bible, has been home since the time of Christ to an ancient sect of Christians called the Copts. According to legend, Mark the Evangelist founded their church in Alexandria in the 1st century AD, when Egypt was under Roman rule and practiced polytheistic religions. Though Egypt long ago became a Muslim nation, the Copts maintained their traditions and rites at monasteries and villages throughout the Nile Valley, the river delta, and the Mediterranean coast, and still do so today.