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On the place, see Otto Meinardus, “Patriarchal Cells in the Nile Delta,” Orientalia Suecana 14–15 (1965–1966): 51–61, here 52–56; Stefan Timm, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit, 7 vols., Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B. Geisteswissenschaften, 41 (Wiesbaden: L. Reichert, 1984–2007), 2:520–523. All the places mentioned in this essay lie between the central and northeastern Delta, roughly along an arc between Ṭanṭā and Dumyāṭ (Damietta).)| false
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On Quṭūr, see Timm, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten, 5:2191–2192.

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On Ṭabanūh, see Timm, Das christlich-koptische Ägypten, 6:2451–2452.

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al-Qummuṣ Bīshoi, al-Shahīd al-ʿaẓīm, 54.

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Raineri, Giorgio, 46–47; Cairo, Coptic Museum, Ms Hist. 469, f. 328v.

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Samuel Rubenson, “Translating the Tradition: Some Remarks on the Arabization of the Patristic Heritage in Egypt,” Medieval Encounters 2 (1996), 4–14 (here 8–10).

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Leslie S.B. MacCoull, “The Rite of the Jar: Apostasy and Reconciliation in the Medieval Coptic Orthodox Church,” Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. D. Wolfthal (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), 145–162; Heinzgerd Brakmann, Tinatin Chronz, and Ugo Zanetti, “Der palästinische Rekonziliationsritus für Apostaten: al-uṣmūn = ἱλασμός. Eine Anmerkung zur Passio des Martyrer-Abtes ʿAbd al-Masīḥ vom Sinai,” Oriens Christianus 93 (2009): 109–112 (here 112).

Leslie S.B. MacCoull, “The Rite of the Jar: Apostasy and Reconciliation in the Medieval Coptic Orthodox Church,” Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. D. Wolfthal (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), 145–162; Heinzgerd Brakmann, Tinatin Chronz, and Ugo Zanetti, “Der palästinische Rekonziliationsritus für Apostaten: al-uṣmūn = ἱλασμός. Eine Anmerkung zur Passio des Martyrer-Abtes ʿAbd al-Masīḥ vom Sinai,” Oriens Christianus 93 (2009): 109–112 (here 112).)| false
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Al-Qummuṣ Bīshoi, al-Shahīd al-ʿaẓīm, 22–23; Raineri, Giorgio, 14–19.

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Al-Qummuṣ Bīshoi, al-Shahīd al-ʿaẓīm, 22.

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See Griffith, “Christians, Muslims, and Neo-Martyrs.” One exception to the pattern of voluntary martyrs is provided by ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (Qays al-Ghassānī); see Mark N. Swanson, “The Martyrdom of ‘Abd al-Masīh, Superior of Mount Sinai (Qays al-Ghassānī),” in Syrian Christians under Islam: The First Thousand Years, ed. David Thomas (Leiden: Brill, 2001), 107–129.

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See Herbert Musurillo (ed. and trans.), The Acts of the Christian Martyrs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), 2–21.

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Zaborowski, Coptic Martyrdom, 11–34.

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Samir Khalil Samir, “The Role of Christians in the Fāṭimid Government Services of Egypt to the Reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ,” Medieval Encounters 2 (1996): 177–192. For a different point of view, see Maryann Shenoda’s contribution to the present collection.

Samir Khalil Samir, “The Role of Christians in the Fāṭimid Government Services of Egypt to the Reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ,” Medieval Encounters 2 (1996): 177–192. For a different point of view, see Maryann Shenoda’s contribution to the present collection.)| false
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