The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (641-1517) /
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Language: English
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Cairo ; [New York :
American University in Cairo Press],
c2010.
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Popes of Egypt ;
2.
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Call Number: BX133.2 .D25 v.2
Table of Contents:
- •Editors' Introduction •Author's Preface •Technical Notes •Acknowledgments •Abbreviations •1. Continuity and Reinvention •Succession and Innovation •Earning the "Crown of Exile" •The Church in a "New World Order" •Relationships with Rulers •A Sacred Geography •2. Patient Sufferers •Coming to the End-Time? •Bearing Trials Patiently •The Account of John the Deacon •Patriarchs and Martyrdom •Patriarchs and Sainthood •3. Crisis of Cohesion •Satan Hinders, but God Prevails •Patriarchs and Political Authority in 'Abbasid Egypt •Trials from Without •Trials from Within •A Crisis of Cohesion? •A Battered Church •Ignorance and Heresy •Conversion •Hanging On •Embattled Saints •4. Saints and Sinners •Bishop Michael's Account: Warts and All •Before the Fatimids •Simony: "The Word of God Became as a Merchandise" •Contrapuntal Saintliness •Unexpected Saintliness •Saints and Sinners •5. Transitions •Language Shift, Lay Concerns, and Ecclesiastical History •Arabic as a Christian Language? •Mawhub: A Historian between Two Worlds •Ibn al-Qulzumi: A Critic of Patriarchs •Gabriel II ibn Turayk: An Attempt at Reform •Introduction: New Sources •Strange Religiosity, Ready Conversion •Linguistic In/competence •Opposition to Reform •After the Reform Attempt •How to Choose a Patriarch •Lay Concerns, Lay Leadership •Tired Theology? •6. Chaos and Glory •A Strange Period •Chroniclers •The Person at the Center of the Story •1216-1217: Attempts at Making a Pope •The Monk Da'ud Becomes Pope Cyril, Successor of Saint Mark •Cyril's Patriarchate •A Failed "Great Man"? Or a Scholar among Scholars? •7. Marginalized Patriarchs •Internal Rivalry, External Interference •Scattered Portrayals, Incidental Mentions •The Patriarch at the Center of the Story •8. A Burst of Holiness •The Patriarch as Saint and Holy Man •An Orchestra of Holiness? The Principals •A Holy Monk: Marqus al-Antuni •A Faithful Disciple: Ibrahim al-Fani •An Independent Saint: Anba Ruways •A Quarter and a Chorus? •9. Humility in Action •After the Fireworks •"Listless" and "Lacking in Blessing"? •Diplomacy and Faithfulness •Quiet Leadership in Difficult Times •Epilogue: Survival •Appendix: The Forty-Nine Martyrs during the Patriarchate of Matthew I (#87, 1378-1408) •Works Cited: Primary Sources •Works Cited: Secondary Sources •Notes •Index