Contesting Authority: Patriarchs and Coptic Notables
Contesting Authority: Patriarchs and Coptic Notables
(Pope Mark VI to Pope Mark VIII, 1646–1798)
This chapter looks at how a real and tangible shift occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in the leadership of the community, away from the Coptic popes and toward distinguished notables.
Keywords: Coptic papacy, patriarchs, notables, arakhina, mubashirin, jizya, Copts, ritual life, church restoration, Ibrahim al-Gawhari
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