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Taʾrīḫ tuḏkar fīhi aḫbār min nawāḥī Miṣr wa-aqṭāʿ ihā (History of Churches and Monasteries)
Author Abu-'l-Makārim Saʿdallah Ibn-Ǧirǧis Ibn-Masʿūd
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Composed in the late twelfth to early thirteenth century, the History of Churches and Monasteries is a key document within Coptic literary and religious history. Comprising four volumes, the medieval Arabic encyclopedia includes exhaustive lists of religious institutions throughout Egypt as well as in Nubia, Ethiopia, and the remainder of the African continent. It also includes detailed descriptions of important ecclesiastical and monastic institutions such as the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai and Shenoute’s Federation
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