Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil)
Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt (1218 -- 1250)
Kurt J. Werthmuller
The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York (2010)
- Egypt's Coptic Museum
Al Masry Al Youm One that I would really love to visit! The Coptic Museum in Cairo has more to offer its visitors than is generally thought. Still, only a small group of Egyptian school children and Coptic families, who visit the museum after church service,...
- The Spirit Of Monasticism In Upper Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) The recent Coptic convention at Naqada drew scholars from all over the world. The symposium, organised by the Saint Mark Foundation for Coptic Studies, took place in the church of the Archangel Michael from 6 to 11 February....
- Book Review: The Churches Of Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly The Churches of Egypt -- From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day, by Gawdat Gabra and Gertrud J.M. van Loon, edited by Carolyn Ludwig with photographs by Sherif Sonbol Review by Jill Kamil (herself the author of Christianity...
- Coptic Language's Last Survivors
Daily Star As usual with the Daily Star, if you are using Firefox as a browser I recommend that you switch briefly to Explorer instead. Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic...
- Book Reviews From Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.37 Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3. $150.00. Reviewed by David Frankfurter, University...
Egypt
Book Review: Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt (1218 -- 1250)
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil)
Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt (1218 -- 1250)
Kurt J. Werthmuller
The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York (2010)
The building blocks of history form a far more complex pattern than is generally realised. History is a record of what has happened as much as it is a narration of what is supposed to or thought to have happened. As such, it is selective. It relies on memory, choice, ethnic or religious bias. Some ideas gain legitimacy through repetition even when later scholarship proves them wrong. In every generation there are mythmakers, and the issue is further complicated in the 20th century by specialisation into separate disciplines. In Egypt, Greek settlements and early Christian structures are located at predominantly pharaonic sites; Christian churches are interspersed with mosques in mediaeval settlements; and mediaeval history itself embodies elements of Hellenistic, Christian, Persian and Jewish cultures. Also, there are eras that have been given short shrift by historians -- sometimes because of lack of primary source material at the time they were written, but more often because of the diversity of the source material and the languages used.
- Egypt's Coptic Museum
Al Masry Al Youm One that I would really love to visit! The Coptic Museum in Cairo has more to offer its visitors than is generally thought. Still, only a small group of Egyptian school children and Coptic families, who visit the museum after church service,...
- The Spirit Of Monasticism In Upper Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) The recent Coptic convention at Naqada drew scholars from all over the world. The symposium, organised by the Saint Mark Foundation for Coptic Studies, took place in the church of the Archangel Michael from 6 to 11 February....
- Book Review: The Churches Of Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly The Churches of Egypt -- From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day, by Gawdat Gabra and Gertrud J.M. van Loon, edited by Carolyn Ludwig with photographs by Sherif Sonbol Review by Jill Kamil (herself the author of Christianity...
- Coptic Language's Last Survivors
Daily Star As usual with the Daily Star, if you are using Firefox as a browser I recommend that you switch briefly to Explorer instead. Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic...
- Book Reviews From Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.37 Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3. $150.00. Reviewed by David Frankfurter, University...