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Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta

Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla

Abstract

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The chapters in this volume, written by international specialists in Coptology, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in northern Egypt over the past two millennia. The book presents a broad picture of Christianity and monasticism in terms of the history, literature, language, art and architecture, and people of these regions from the first century to the late twentieth century. The chapters explore Coptic art and archaeology, architec ... More

Keywords: Christianity, monasticism, Upper Egypt, Coptic civilization, Coptic art, Coptic archaeology, Coptic architecture, Coptic language, Coptic literature

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9789774167775
Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: January 2018 DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774167775.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gawdat Gabra, editor
Claremont Graduate University

Hany N. Takla, editor
University of California, Los Angeles

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Illustrations

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

1 John of Barullos (540–615)

Bishop Kyrillos

2 The Relationship between the Monks of Northern Egypt and the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church

David Brakke

3 Saint Mina Monastery in Arabic Sources

Sherin Sadek El Gendi

4 The Bashmurite Revolts in the Delta and the ‘Bashmuric Dialect’

Frank Feder

5 Toward the Localization of the Hennaton Monastic Complex

Mary Ghattas

6 The Pachomian Federation and Lower Egypt: The Ties that Bind

James E. Goehring

7 The Relations between the Coptic Church and the Armenian Church from the Time of Muhammad Ali to the Present (1805–2015)

Mary Kupelian

8 Saint Barsum the Naked and His Veneration at al-Ma‘sara (Dayr Shahran)

Bishop Martyros

9 The Traditions of the Holy Family and the Development of Christianity in the Nile Delta

Ashraf Alexandre Sadek

10 Anba Ruways and the Cathedral of St. Mark

Adel F. Sadek

11 The Perception of St. Athanasius of Alexandria in Later Coptic Literature

Ibrahim Saweros

12 The Discovery of the Papyri from Tura at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and Its Legacy

Caroline T. Schroeder

13 Nitria

Mark Sheridan

14 Yuhanna al-Samannudi, the Founder of National Coptic Philology in the Middle Ages

Adel Sidarus

15 The Arabic Version of the Miracles of Apa Mina

Hany N. Takla

16 Life of Pope Cyril VI (Kyrillos VI)

Teddawos Ava Mina and Youhanna Nessim Youssef

17 The Veneration of Anba Hadid and the Nile Delta in the Thirteenth Century

Asuka Tsuji

18 Kellia and Monastic Epigraphy

Jacques van der Vliet

19 Butrus al-Sadamanti al-Armani (Peter of Sadamant ‘the Armenian’)

Fr. Awad Wadi

20 Julius of Aqfahs: The Martyrdom of John and Simon

Youhanna Nessim Youssef

21 The Bohairic Acts of the Martyrs as a Genre of Religious Discourse

Ewa D. Zakrzewska

22 Remnants of a Byzantine Church at Athribis

Tomasz Górecki

23 Architecture in Kellia

Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou

24 Kellia: Its Decoration in Painting and Stucco

Karel C. Innemée

25 Highlights from the Polish Excavations at Marea/Philoxenite 2000–14

Krzysztof Babraj and Daria Tarara

26 Conservation of Mural Paintings in the Coptic Museum

Michael Jones

End Matter

Abbreviations

Bibliography