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Agathon Of Homs

AGATHON OF HOMS (AGATHON OF HOMS) A twelfth-century author and a bishop of Homs (Homs), and mentioned by the encyclopedist Abu al-Barakat IBN KABAR (d. 1324) in Chapter 7 of the Misbah al-Zulmah (Misbah al-Zulmah) (“Lamp of Darkness”). He classes him among the Coptic medieval authors after SAWIRUS IBN AL-MUQAFFA‘, Michael of Damietta, and Butrus …

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Agathun Ibn Fasih Al-Tursini

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

AGATHUN IBN FASIH AL-TURSINI (AGATHUN IBN FASIH AL-TURSINI) A monk of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, if the nisbah (place of origin) refers to him. It is possible that he was the son of a monk of Sinai, if the nisbah refers to his father. He belonged to the Melchite community of …

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Acts Of The Apostles

Books / By Youssef Matta

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Coptic literature is particularly rich in so-called apocryphal texts. This is especially noticeable in the documents dealing with the apostles. The source of this phenomenon may be ascribed to the spirit of patriotism prevailing among the Copts or to the tradition of legendary and fictitious forms so commonly used in the …

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Abu Al-Muna

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABU AL-MUNA A parish priest in Cairo in 1549. Information about Abu al-Muna comes from two manuscript colophons. In A.M. 1266/1549-1550, he acquired a manuscript now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Huntington 240, one of the most precious manuscripts of this period for the number of unique or rare texts it presents, among them Treatise …

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