Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt /

Armanios, Febe, 1974-

Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt / Febe Armanios. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - ix, 254 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-243) and index.

Locating Copts in Ottoman history -- Championing a communal ethos : the neo-martyrdom of St. Salib in the sixteenth century -- A female martyr cult in the Nile Delta : Dimyana and the forty virgins -- The miracle of pilgrimage : a journey to Jerusalem in the early eighteenth century -- Weapons of the faithful : defining orthodoxy through sermons.

9780199744848 (alk. paper) 019974484X (alk. paper)


Coptic Church--History.


Egypt--Church history.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.



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