The decline of the Melkite Church in Islamic Egypt and its revival by Patriarch Cosmas I (ca 727-768)
This study focuses on the relations of the Melkites and Copts, two rival religious communities in early Muslim Egypt, at a critical turning point, i.e. the time of the patriarch of Alexandria Cosmas I (ca 727-768), about which not enough attention has been paid by modern scholars. Cosmas’s...
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Africajournals
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Pharos Journal of Theology |
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http://www.pharosjot.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/article_5_vol_98_2017.docx.pdf
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