Author: Matḥaf al-Qibṭī (Cairo, Egypt)Publisher:
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Category : Architecture, Coptic
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Brief Guide to the Coptic Museum and to the Principal Ancient Coptic Churches of Cairo
Author: Matḥaf al-Qibṭī (Cairo, Egypt)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Coptic
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Coptic Museum
Author: Gawdat GabraPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A full-color guide to one of Egypt?'s leading museums
Marcus Simaika
Author: Samir SimaikaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774168232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation of Egypt. From a young age, he developed a passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light on centuries of Christian Egyptian history that had been neglected by ignorance or otherwise belittled and despised. He was not a professional archaeologist, an excavator, or a specialist scholar of Coptic language and literature. Rather, his achievement lies in his role as a visionary administrator who used his status to pursue relentlessly his dream of founding a Coptic Museum and preserving endangered monuments. During his lengthy career, first as a civil servant, then as a legislator and member of the Coptic community council, he maneuvered endlessly between the patriarch and the church hierarchy, the Coptic community council, the British authorities, and the government to bring them together in his fight to save Coptic heritage. This fascinating biography draws upon Simaika's unpublished memoirs as well as on other documents and photographs from the Simaika family archive to deepen our understanding of several important themes of modern Egyptian history: the development of Coptic archaeology and heritage studies, Egyptian-British interactions during the colonial and semi-colonial eras, shifting balances in the interaction of clergymen and the lay Coptic community, and the ever-sensitive evolution of relations between Copts and their Muslim countrymen.
The A to Z of the Coptic Church
Author: Gawdat GabraPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870576
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, Copts, members of the Coptic Church, compromise the largest Christian Community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than 19 centuries old and has produced thousands of texts and biblical and theological studies. During the last half of the 20th century, however, economic and political discrimination has forced between 400,000 and one million Copts to emigrate from Egypt, with the majority settling in North America and Australia. The A to Z of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, and structures; the theology and practices of the church; its literature and liturgy; and monasteries and churches.
The Egyptian Or Coptic Church
Author: Oswald Hugh Ewart Khs-BurmesterPublisher:
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Category : Liturgics
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
Author: The Coptic Orthodox Church
Author: Christine ChaillotPublisher: Inter-Orthodox Dialogue Orthdruk
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Babylon of Egypt
Author: Peter SheehanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774167317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Presents a history of old Cairo, known by the Romans as Babylon, based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006, revealing continuous occupation extending from the 6th century BC to the present day.
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