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Christianity and monasticism in northern Egypt : Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta / edited by Gawdat Gabra, Hany N. Takla.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Christianity and monasticism in Egypt.
- Christianity and monasticism in Egypt
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copts--Civilization.
- Copts.
- Coptic monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--Nile River Delta--History.
- Coptic monasticism and religious orders.
- Coptic monasticism and religious orders--Egypt--History.
- Egypt--Church history.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (769 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the 4th century until the present day. The contributors to this volume examine various aspects of Coptic civilisation in Aswan and Nubia over the past centuries.
- Contents:
- John of Barullos (540-615) / Bishop Kyrillos
- The Relationship between the Monks of Northern Egypt and the patriarchs of the Egyptian church / David Brakke
- Saint Minamonastery in Arabic sources / Sherin Sadek El Gendi
- The Bashmurite revolts in the Delta and the 'Bashmuric dialect,' Frank Feder
- Toward the localization of the Hennaton monastic complex, Mary Ghattas
- The Pachomian federation and lower Egypt : the ties that bind / James E. Goehring
- The relations between the coptic church and the Armenian church from the time of Muhammad Ali to the present (1805-2015) / Mary Kupelian
- Saint Barsoum the naked and his veneration at al-Ma'sara (Deir Shahran) / Bishop Martyros
- The traditions of the holy family and the development of Christianity in the Nile Delta / Ashraf Alexandre Sadek
- Anba Ruways and the cathedral of Saint Mark / Adel F. Sadek
- The perception of St. Athanasius of Alexandria in later coptic literature / Ibrahim Saweros
- The discovery of papyri from Turah at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and its legacy / Caroline T. Schroeder
- Nitria / Mark Sheridan
- Yuhanna al-Samannudi, the founder of national coptic philology in the Middle Ages / Adel Sidarus
- The Arabic version of the Miracles of Apa Mena Based on two unpublished manuscripts in the collection of the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite coptic society in Los Angeles / Hany N. Takla
- Life of Pope Cyril VI (Kyrillos VI) / Teddawos Ava Mina and Youhanna Nessim Youssef
- The veneration of Anba Hadid and the Nile Delta in the thirteenth century / Asuka Tsuji
- Kellia and monastic epigraphy / Jacques van der Vliet
- Butrus al-Sadamanti al-Armani (Peter of Sadamant "the Armenian") / Fr. Awad Wadi
- Julius of Aqfahs : the martyrdom of John and Simon / Youhanna Nessim Youssef
- The Bohairic Acts of the Martyrs acts as a genre of religious discourse / Ewa D. Zakrzewska
- Remnants of a Byzantine church at Athribis / Tomasz Górecki
- Architecture in Kellia / Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou
- Kellia : its decoration in painting and stucco / Karel C. Innemée
- Highlights from the polish excavations at Marea/Philoxenite 2000-14 / Krzysztof Babraj and Daria Tarara
- Conservation of mural paintings in the coptic museum / Michael Jones.
- Notes:
- "A Saint Mark Foundation book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781617978203
- 1617978205
- 9781617977800
- 1617977802
- 9781617977794
- 1617977799
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