Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt

1218–1250

Bibliographic Data

ID20033319
AuthorsKurt J Werthmuller (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages190
Publication date2010-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCoptic Identity And Ayyubid Politics In Egypt 12181250 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAmerican University in Cairo Press (PUBLISHER • EG)
DOI10.5743/cairo/9789774163456.001.0001
OpenAlexW638770197
ISBN9789774163456
Open LibraryOL25990801M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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. The book 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 book 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, it 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

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Identity (music) · Monasticism · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Christianity · Christianity and other religions · Church and state · Coptic Church · Copts · Egypt · Islam · politics and government · Relations · Religion

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