...Faw al-Qibli (or “South Faw”) is identifiable with the ancient village called Pbow in Coptic, both on the basis of the name and also by the presence at the town's western edge of architectural remains that are best interpreted as parts of an ancient church. It has been called the “the Basilica...

... that they, too, had been found but discarded by Naville, on account of their poor condition. The succeeding decades witnessed the excavation of a series of Christian settlements and monasteries at Western Thebes (Krause 1982; Wilfong 1989). The excavations of the University of Pennsylvania also yielded Coptic...

...The number of Coptic documents seems to shrink sharply, and even more conspicuously. Legal documents, seen in a functional perspective, are writings whose principal aim is to record, and thus to preserve, promises or acknowledgments made by one party to another one, in an intentionally binding way...

... to the decrease of the population, especially in the villages and the monasteries. Historical sources mention the story of a crippled old Coptic woman who saved some of the treasured relics of her church by ceding all her possessions to the marauding Crusaders and thereby deflecting them from pillaging her Coptic...

... corpus of Coptic papyri (about 3,300 items) can be attributed to the region (Delattre 2005–), with the result that the site is one of the best documented in antiquity. Nationally aligned institutions jockeyed to establish prominent collections under a greater or lesser pretense of scholarship...

... that they could have been used as stables for small animals. Tell al-Qubeba is an example of the many archaeological sites of secondary importance, often neglected or destroyed, that may nevertheless be useful for understanding Coptic architecture, life, and history. archaeologists Tell al-Qubeba feddan Esna...

...Many activities during the last fifteen years have been carried out to discover or conserve the Coptic murals. These activities have been sponsored by Dutch, French, Polish, and American (ARCE) missions. The Monastery of St. Antony (Dayr Anba Antunius) also had a great chance for the conservation...

...This chapter covers the leadership of Coptic Pope Mark VIII, 1797–1809 and Pope Peter VII, 1809–52), addressing the moral conduct of the Coptic community and the education of Copts. Arabic language Coptic language French Expedition Girgis al Gawhari Ibrahim al Gawhari Mark VIII pope Military...

... Khedive Tawfiq Khedive Awakening al nahda Coptic reform Cyril IV pope Education Lay leadership Majlis al Milli Community Council Markus of al Beheira Metropolitan Notables arakhina Reform Reid Donald Malcolm Rufayla Yaʿqub Nakhla Suez Canal Canon law Coptic papal election Ghali Pasha...

...This chapter looks at the reigns of three popes—John XIX, 1928–42; Macarius III, 1944–45; and Yusab II, 1946–56—who saw the proverbial best and worst of times in the history of Egypt and the Coptic Church. Coptic papacy Egyptian Parliament Farouk King Islam John XIX pope Lay leadership...

... as archives from the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and monasteries, this book reconstructs the authority of the popes and the organization of the Coptic community during this time. The chapters reveal that the popes held complete authority over their flock at the beginning of the Ottoman rule, deciding over...

...Murqus Simaika's career, the Coptic Museum he founded in 1908, Mirrit Boutros Ghali's Society of Coptic Archeology (1934), and the perception that Copts were “sons of the pharaohs” provide main narrative threads for this chapter. In the late nineteenth century, Simaika and other Coptic Christian...

... major artists. Without documents this attribution remains preliminary. New discoveries in the illustrated and dated Coptic-Arabic manuscripts from the Akhmim region, presented by Father Bigoul al-Suriany in this volume, will expand our knowledge. The meaning of the rosary as the symbol of the Coptic...

...The massive wall painting conservation project now underway in the church at the Red Monastery near Sohag is contributing substantially to the known corpus of late antique art. Obscured under layers of soot, dust, and varnish for centuries, even most specialists of Coptic art had little familiarity...

... was finished as a dynamic and expensive one, is the beginning of the story of this book. This book also deals with the different believers such as the Muslims, Christians, and Jews who were involved in the dynamics of the Coptic-Ayyubid model. Moreover, this book is not just about the Coptic-Ayyubid model, its...

...This chapter provides an examination of the unique role that monasticism occupied during the front line of defense of Coptic identity as a unique Egyptian identity. The popularity of monasticism definitely stayed applicable to Egypt itself wherein successive centuries of remarkable religious...

...This chapter examines the corpus of Coptic ostraca found in the tombs of the South Asasif necropolis. Archaeological excavations at the South Asasif necropolis yielded 519 pottery sherds or limestone flakes bearing a variety of (mainly) Coptic texts. Of these, 490 pieces originated from...

...The unprecedented revival of the Coptic Church toward the second half of the twentieth century is one of the great historical events of world Christianity. Following the enthronement of Pope Cyril VI in 1959, some of the former Sunday school teachers and monks and hermits were called...

... Nadine al Azhar University civil society Coptic Orthodox Church human rights Islamist movements middle class mobilization social movements social movement theory state al Azhar University youth movements Facebook Nasser Gamal Abdel social media youth Islam Islamism Muslim Brotherhood...

...This chapter is about agency in the form of resistance, subversion, and protest, exploring Coptic mobilization and specific grievances. It draws a distinction between “Coptic protests” (that fight religious discrimination) and “Copts in protest” (that address broader social and political movements...