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Coptic identity and Ayyubid politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 / Kurt J. Werthmuller.

Title
Coptic identity and Ayyubid politics in Egypt, 1218-1250 / Kurt J. Werthmuller.
Author
Werthmuller, Kurt J.
Publication
Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.

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x, 190 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty in the early thirteenth century. Kurt Werthmuller introduces new scholarship that illuminates the varied relationships between medieval Christians of Egypt and their Muslim neighbors. Demonstrating that the Coptic community was neither passive nor static, the author discusses the active role played by the Copts in the formation and evolution of their own identity within the wider political and societal context of this period. In particular, he examines the boundaries between Copts and the wider Egyptian society in the Ayyubid period in three 'in-between spaces': patriarchal authority, religious conversion, and monasticism."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Coptic Church > History
  • 640-1250
  • Copts > History
  • Church and state > Egypt > History > 640-1250
  • Christianity and other religions > Islam
  • Islam > Christianity
  • Church and state > Egypt > History
  • Church and state > Egypt > History > To 1500
  • Egypt > History > 640-1250
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
Language (note)
  • Source texts in Arabic with English translation following.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction --- 1. Approaching non-Muslim identities in Islamic history -- 2. State, society, and the Copts under the Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Bahri Mamluks, 969-1382 CE -- 3. Patriarchal authority -- 4. The politics of conversion and apostasy -- 5. Monks and monasticism --- Conclusion --- Appendixes I and II.
ISBN
  • 9789774163456
  • 9774163451
OCLC
  • 441137511
  • SCSB-10760527
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library