Christian Muslim Relations In Egypt

Author : Henrik Lindberg Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857738400

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Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt by Henrik Lindberg Hansen Pdf

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik Lindberg Hansen analyzes this relationship, offering an examination of the nature and role of religious dialogue in Egyptian society and politics. Analysing the three main religious organizations and institutions in Egypt (namely the Azhar University, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Coptic Orthodox Church) as well as a range of smaller dialogue initiatives (such as those of CEOSS, the Anglican and Catholic Churches and youth organisations), Hansen argues that religious dialogue involves a close examination of societal relations, and how these are understood and approached. The books includes analysis of the occasions of violence against and dialogue initiatives involving Christian communities in 2011 and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, and thus provides a wide-ranging exploration of the importance of religion in Egyptian society and everyday encounters with a religious other. The book is consequently vital for practitioners as well as researchers dealing with religious minorities in the Middle East and interfaith dialogue in a wider context.

Author : Henrik Lindberg Hansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857726780

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Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt by Henrik Lindberg Hansen Pdf

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik Lindberg Hansen analyzes this relationship, offering an examination of the nature and role of religious dialogue in Egyptian society and politics. Analysing the three main religious organizations and institutions in Egypt (namely the Azhar University, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Coptic Orthodox Church) as well as a range of smaller dialogue initiatives (such as those of CEOSS, the Anglican and Catholic Churches and youth organisations), Hansen argues that religious dialogue involves a close examination of societal relations, and how these are understood and approached. The books includes analysis of the occasions of violence against and dialogue initiatives involving Christian communities in 2011 and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013, and thus provides a wide-ranging exploration of the importance of religion in Egyptian society and everyday encounters with a religious other. The book is consequently vital for practitioners as well as researchers dealing with religious minorities in the Middle East and interfaith dialogue in a wider context.

Author : Peter E. Makari
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0815631448

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Conflict and Cooperation by Peter E. Makari Pdf

Egypt is considered the intellectual birthplace of the modern Islamic movements, and is a center of Islamic thought and culture. It is also home to one of the oldest Christian populations in the world. While conflict between these two communities is often the focus of media attention in the region, important efforts to advocate for and support positive inter-communal relations are finding a degree of success. In this book, Peter Makari considers the role of governmental and non-governmental actors in conflict resolution and the promotion of positive Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt. He maintains that, prevailing opinions notwithstanding, the last quarter-century has witnessed a high level of inter-religious cooperation and tolerance. Relying heavily on Arabic sources, Makari examines the rhetoric and actions of official governmental and religious institutions. Combining empirical research with an informed theoretical perspective, this work offers a perspective seldom available to the English reader on questions of tolerance, citizenship, and civil society in this part of the Arab world.

Author : Angie Heo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520297982

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The Political Lives of Saints by Angie Heo Pdf

"Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the more routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer's eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world"--Provided by publisher.

Author : S. S. Hasan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195350104

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Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt by S. S. Hasan Pdf

The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. In recent years they have often figured in the news as victims of bloody attacks by Islamic militants. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt is the first study of Christian identity politics in contemporary Egypt. S.S. Hasan begins by looking at how the Coptic generation of the 1940s and 1950s remembered, recovered, and imagined the ancient history of Christianity in Egypt in order to weld the Copts into a unified nation, resistant to the growing encroachments of Islam. She argues that this interpretation of history, in which Egyptian martyrs figure prominently, made possible the rebirth of the Coptic church and community-in much the same way as the preservation of Hebrew and the historical memory of Jewish tribulations served the purpose of national reconstruction of the state of Israel. The bulk of the book focuses on the period beginning with the consecration of Pope Shenuda in 1971. Drawing on extensive interviews with church leaders, clergy, and others Hasan finds that during this period the responsibilities of the church for the welfare of the Coptic community grew immeasurably. Church leaders arrogated to themselves the exclusive right to the political representation of their community and reconceived their role from the narrow care of souls to the promotion of economic and cultural efflorescence of the entire Coptic community. The leaders of this revival, she shows, have nurtured a potent and distinctive religious culture with a sense of communal pride and identity in an environment in which they were increasingly exposed to discrimination and outright hostility.

Author : Jāk Tājir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132349403

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Christians in Muslim Egypt by Jāk Tājir Pdf

Author : Fikry Andrawes,Alison Orr-Andrawes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9774168704

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Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt by Fikry Andrawes,Alison Orr-Andrawes Pdf

For the most part of their shared history, Copts and Muslims in Egypt have experienced bouts of sectarian tension alternating with peaceful coexistence. Copts and Muslims in Egypt tells the story of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the aftermath of the January 2011 revolution. It begins by describing how the Church of Alexandria came into existence, and created a monastic tradition that would influence the whole of Christendom, before exploring the theological controversies that plagued the Eastern Roman world before the advent of Islam. After bouts of persecution by the Roman emperors, the Copts were strongly opposed by the Melkite Church, but, with the Arab invasion of Egypt in the seventh century, they achieved a measure of independence and individuality that they retained over the centuries. The Copts were also subjected to periods of persecution--by rulers from the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid dynasties, and under the Mamluks--but by and large, a relatively satisfactory form of cohabitation was established. The authors argue that, even if they were occasionally attacked and persecuted, the Copts generally shared the fortunes of their Muslim neighbors, and that religious difference in Egypt was frequently exploited by rulers, both internal and external, for political gain. Copts and Muslims in Egypt provides an engaging and highly readable account of communal relations through key points in Egyptian history.

Author : Oddbjørn Leirvik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134171606

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Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations by Oddbjørn Leirvik Pdf

Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well as examining the relation between selfhood and otherness in interfaith dialogue. The author explores how the notion of conscience has been dealt with by modern Egyptian authors and discusses their works in light of how Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt have evolved during the modern period.

Author : Francis Abdelmassieh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9783643962805

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Egyptian-Islamic Views on the Comparison of Religions by Francis Abdelmassieh Pdf

Francis Abdelmassiehverfasst (geb. in Ägypten) erhielt am evangelischen Seminar in Kairo seine theologische Ausbildung. Nach seiner Ordination in 2001 arbeitete er als Pastor der Evangelisch-Presbyterianischen Kirche in Mallawi, einem Ort circa 300 km südlich von Kairo. Sein Wunsch weiter zu studieren und den akademischen Grad eines ?Master in Intercultural Theology? zu erwerben, brachten ihn und seine Familie im Jahr 2013 nach Hermannsburg an die Fachhochschule für Interkulturelle Theologie. Nach seinem erfolgreichen Abschluss hat er eine befristete Berufung in der Bremischen Evangelischen Kirche für die Arbeit mit Arabisch sprechenden Flüchtlingen angetreten. 0Anfang März 2020 hat Francis Abdelmassieh sein Promotionsverfahren zur Erlangung des Titel eines Dr. phil. an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal erfolgreich abgeschlossen.

Author : Angie Heo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520297975

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The Political Lives of Saints by Angie Heo Pdf

"Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the more routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer's eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jason R. Zaborowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047406396

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The Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijōit by Jason R. Zaborowski Pdf

This study provides an edition, English translation, and analysis of the thirteenth-century Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijōit. Sociological and philological approaches to the text explain its significance to the study of Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt at the time of the Crusades.

Author : Lajos Berkes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780979975899

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Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt by Lajos Berkes Pdf

This volume collects studies exploring the relationship of Christians and Muslims in everyday life in Early Islamic Egypt (642–10th c.) focusing mainly, but not exclusively on administrative and social history. The contributions concentrate on the papyrological documentation preserved in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. By doing so, this book transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and offers results based on a holistic view of the documentary material. The articles of this volume discuss various aspects of change and continuity from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt and offer also the (re)edition of 23 papyrus documents in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic. The authors provide a showcase of recent papyrological research on this under-studied, but dynamically evolving field. After an introduction by the editor of the volume that outlines the most important trends and developments of the period, the first two essays shed light on Egypt as part of the Caliphate. The following six articles, the bulk of the volume, deal with the interaction and involvement of the Egyptian population with the new Muslim administrative apparatus. The last three studies of the volume focus on naming practices and language change.

Author : Sebastian Elsässer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199368396

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The Coptic Question in the Mubarak Era by Sebastian Elsässer Pdf

This text presents an original and critical study of Coptic-Muslim relations in Mubārak's Egypt, providing a comprehensive analysis of its political and social background. With great historical depth, the book examines the Coptic concerns discussed and negotiated by the Egyptian public during the Mubārak era.

Author : Andrea B. Rugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566133

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Christians in Egypt by Andrea B. Rugh Pdf

Christians in the Middle East have come under increasing pressure in recent years with the rise of radical Islam. In Egypt, the large Coptic Christian community has traditionally played an important political and historical role. This book examines Egyptian Christians' responses to sectarian pressures in both national and local contexts.

Author : Anh Nga Longva,Anne Sofie Roald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004207424

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Religious Minorities in the Middle East by Anh Nga Longva,Anne Sofie Roald Pdf

Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.