Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 June 2015
- ISBN 9780190247225
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.
MoreLong description:
In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives. Ottoman Copts frequently turned to religious discourses, practices, and rituals as they dealt with various transformations in the first centuries of Ottoman rule. These included the establishment of a new political regime, changes within communal leadership structures (favoring lay leaders over clergy), the economic ascent of the archons (lay elites), and developments in the Copts' relationship with other religious communities, particularly with Catholics.
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt highlights how Copts, as a minority living in a dominant Islamic culture, identified and distinguished themselves from other groups by turning to an impressive array of religious traditions, such as the visitation of saints' shrines, the relocation of major festivals to remote destinations, the development of new pilgrimage practices, as well as the writing of sermons that articulated a Coptic religious ethos in reaction to Catholic missionary discourses. Within this discussion of religious life, the Copts' relationship to local political rulers, military elites, the Muslim religious establishment, and to other non-Muslim communities are also elucidated. In all, the book aims to document the Coptic experience within the Ottoman Egyptian context while focusing on new documentary sources and on an historical era that has been long neglected.
Febe Armanios establishes her rightful place as a leading scholar whose expertise covers the yawning gap between late antiquity and the contemporary period... Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt should appeal to multiple scholarly audiences in Middle Eastern history and religious studies... Beyond a scholarly audience, this monograph, now available in affordable paperback version, merits a broader readership for anyone interested in the life of minority communities in the Arab Muslim world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Locating Copts in Ottoman History
2. Championing a Communal Ethos: The Neo-Martyrdom of St. Salib in the Sixteenth Century
3. A Female Martyr Cult in the Nile Delta: Dimyana and the Forty Virgins
4. The Miracle of Pilgrimage: A Journey to Jerusalem in the Early Eighteenth Century
5. Weapons of the Faithful: Defining Orthodoxy through Sermons
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
