The Martyrdom of Bifām Ibn Baqūra al-Ṣawwāf by Mawhūb ibn Manṣūr ibn Mufarrij and Its Fatimid Background

This paper discusses the primary Copto-Arabic literary source for the history of Fatimid Egypt, and indeed, for much of the history of Egypt in general: known as the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria, it was compiled in Arabic in the late eleventh century ce on the basis of earlier, mostly Cop...

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Main Author: den Heijer, Johannes (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2015, Volume: 21, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 452-484
Further subjects:B Fatimids Copts The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria The Copto-Arabic Synaxarion Christodoulos (66th Coptic Patriarch) Mawhūb ibn Manṣūr ibn Mufarrij al-Mustanṣir Billāh – Badr al-Jamālī Bifām ibn Baqūra al-Ṣawwāf ʿIddat al-Dawla Rifq martyrdom apostasy conversion
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