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Monasteries In The Daqahliyyah Province

MONASTERIES IN THE DAQAHLIYYAH PROVINCE This province occupies the northern part of the Delta between the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the so-called Damietta Branch of the Nile. The monastic settlements attested in this region by literary evidence are fairly numerous. We distinguish them by the actual markaz (district) in which they were situated. Nawasa …

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Monasteries Of The Eastern Desert Of The Delta And Sinai

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

MONASTERIES OF THE EASTERN DESERT OF THE DELTA AND SINAI. A number of places are mentioned in the ancient sources as the abodes of monks in this vast region. Pelusium is today called Tall al-Farama, and is 2 miles (3 km) from the Mediterranean coast and 14 miles (23 km) east of the al-Tinah station …

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Muhammad Ramzi (1871-1945)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MUHAMMAD RAMZI (1871-1945) Egyptian scholar. He was born and educated at the town of al-Mansurah in the Delta and later at the School of Law in Cairo. In 1892 he joined the Ministry of Finance as a clerical employee, and by 1930 he had been promoted to the position of inspector general of land taxation. …

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Clerical Ordination

System / By Armia FAYEZ

CLERICAL ORDINATION The right of a bishop to ordain Christians of his diocese as deacons and priests is so generally recognized that the canons of the Coptic church (see CANONS, ECCLESIASTICAL) relate only to abuses: for instance, the ordination of Christians from another diocese or the acceptance of a gift for the ordination. The bishop’s …

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Murqus Simaykah

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

MURQUS SIMAYKAH (1864-1944) A public servant and founder of the COPTIC MUSEUM in Cairo. Born to an old Coptic family of clerks and magistrates, he had a distinguished career in the government service, but this was not enough to occupy his time after he reached middle age. He then devoted himself to public affairs in …

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Naqizah

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

NAQIZAH A town in the province of Gharbiyyah. ABU AL- MAKARIM, in his description of the churches and monasteries of Lower Egypt, situates at Naqzah a monastery, the lofty buildings of which could be seen from Damietta. He indicates its position as “near the salt sea, to the east of Nastarawah [al-Burullus].” He adds that …

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Nastaruh (Nastarawah)

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

NASTARUH (Nastarawah) A town in Egypt that seems to have been located in the northern Delta along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea on Lake Bashmur (Maspero, 1919, p. 211). The fact that the repeated onslaughts of the Greeks against Dumyat in the middle of the ninth century prompted the citizens of Rashid, Alexandria, and …

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The Enaton

Places / By Armia FAYEZ

THE ENATON One of the chief monastic centers of Byzantine and medieval Egypt, near Alexandria. It was called in Arabic Dayr al-Zujaj (Monastery of Glass) or Dayr al-Zajjaj (Monastery of the Glass Maker). Although the whole complex of monasteries at Enaton was completely ruined at the end of the Middle Ages, numerous Greek and Oriental …

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Inscriptions

Heritage / By Armia FAYEZ

INSCRIPTIONS Writing on long-lasting materials. Inscriptions, like texts written on papyrus (see PAPYROLOGY), are important primary sources of information about a society. In Egypt they appear on stone, plaster, clay, wood, metal, and textiles. They may be scratched, carved, engraved, stamped, painted or inked, or woven. Those written on clay sherds or limestone fragments are …

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Dikaion

History / By Youssef Matta

DIKAION A term of Greek origin, encountered from the sixth century on in many Greek and Coptic documents connected with the economic activity of monasteries or, more rarely, churches and philanthropic institutions. It is to be found predominantly in introductory formulas that describe the addressee or the institution issuing the document, for example, “the dikaion …

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