LET US COMPLETELY COPTICISE THE DIVINE LITURGY BEFORE WE START USING IT IN...
The “kyrie elesison”, the “irini pasi” and its response “kaito ephnigmati so”, and even the Doxology must be translated into Coptic In a previous article, titled “How the Greek in Coptic liturgy...
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WHAT IS A NATION?
An updated version of What Is A Nation? ON COPTIC NATIONALISM في القومية القبطية A buffalo herd: they instinctively herd together Nations and national feelings are not new – they are at least as old as...
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COPTIC PARIS: WHERE YUHANNA CHIFTICHI LIVED AND OFFICIATED MASS
Section of Paris map showing areas in which Yuhanna Chiftich lived and officiated Yuhanna Chiftichi is one of the most interesting and extraordinary persons in Coptic history. He was a Coptic priest,...
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THE TIME FOR BAPTISM IN EARLY COPTIC CHURCH ACCORDING TO IBN KABAR
Pope Tawadros II cooking the Myron before consecrating it. The Myron is no longer consecrating at Alexandria and only on a certain date of the year. From my previous articles on the subjects of the...
View ArticleGREAT NEWS: AN AMHERIC VERSION OF THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN OF NIKIU IS FOUND
The prominent Coptologist, Alin Suciu, from Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, has recently told me that an Amharic version of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu has been found and is due to be...
View ArticleARABS OF THE ABBASID PERIOD KNEW THAT THE COPTS WERE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE...
When the Abbasid Caliph, al-Mamoun (813 – 833), came to Egypt to suppress the Coptic Revolt in 831 – 832), he enquired about the origin of the Copts. Al-Mamoun asked his governor in Egypt, ‘Amru ibn...
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A MEDICAL STUDY IN THE FACIAL FEATURES OF MU’ALLEM JIRJIS AL-JAWHARI
Moallem Guerguis Koft; a pencil on paper drawing by Michel Rigo (kept at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris) In a previous study titled “MU’ALLEM JIRJIS AL-JAWHARI, ISLAM, NAPLEON BONAPARTE AND THE COPT’S...
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THE COPTS AND GOBIR (I)
The two German missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Charles William Isenberg (1808 – 1864) and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810 – 1881) Recently, while studying the topic of the Copts and Ethiopia,...
View ArticleWHY DO TRUE COPTS DISLIKE THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
Copts at the present speak Arabic, but it hasn’t been the case in the past, or, certainly in Upper Egypt, until late in the Middle-Ages. Prior to that, the Copts thought in, spoke, wrote and read...
View ArticleTHE FOLLY OF OUR FATHERS
By ‘our fathers’, I don’t mean the Fathers of the Church or any of our saints and martyrs. By it, I mean those Coptic elites – clerks and traders – of Al-Qahira and Misr in the twelfth, thirteenth and...
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PROFESSOR WILSON BISHAI AND COPTIC INFLUENCE ON EGYPTIAN ARABIC
Professor Wilson B. Bishai (1923 – 2008) Professor Wilson B. (Basta) Bishai (1923 – 2008) was a highly respected Coptic Coptologist and Orientalist. He was born in Egypt (other source say Germany![1])...
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OUR PRESENT DAY LINGUAL FOLLIES
I spoke in a previous article about our fathers’ folly in relation to language. What they did, they did, and we can’t change it. But what we – modern Copts – do, we can still alter or stop. Our own...
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THE UNFOUNDED COPTIC GRAMMATICAL INFLUENCE ON EGYPTIAN ARABIC – FOCUS ON...
NOTE. This article was researched and written objectively. The writer submits it to contribute to scientific research; however, after coming to his conclusions, he also submits it for the benefit of...
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THE DELIRIOUS COPT: A SHORT STORY
The Stockholm Syndrome by Ramses Morales Izquierdo In a previous article, “Our Present Day Lingual Follies” I included this short story, “The Delirious”. By the Delirious I meant those Copts who die...
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THE COPTIC NATIONALISTS ARE DEMOCRATS AND CANNOT SUPPORT ANY TYRANT OR ANY...
Obey me, acrylic cartoon by Rauky Painter, France, 2007. What is called a ‘parliament’ in Egypt is a joke. Egypt is ruled by a dictatorship, and such has been the case since 1952; and its parliament...
View ArticleON THE DESPOTIC NATURE OF ARAB NATIONALISM: NO COPTIC IDENTITY IS ALLOWED
Bernard Lewis (1916 – 2018), the celebrated British American historian and Orientalist, who has written on Arabic and Islamic history and culture better than almost all specialists, wrote in 1950 his...
View ArticleGROUNDS FOR DIVORCE IN THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE TENTH CENTURY
The Coptic grounds for divorce now are several, and some still demand more. This relaxation in the canons concerning divorce, in opposition to Christ’s clear command,[1] is not original – the historian...
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BISHOP SEVERUS OF ASHMUNEIN ON SLAVERY
The Coptic Bishop of Hermopolis Magna (al-Ashmunein), also known as Saweris ibn al-Muqaffa’, is a famous bishop in the Coptic Church from the tenth century (d. 987). This illustrious bishop, who wrote...
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IS COPTIC THE HARDEST AMONG ALL ALPHABETICAL LANGUAGES AS JØRGEN ZOËGA CLAIMS?
Jørgen Zoëga by the Danish sculptor Ludvig Brandstrup (erected in 1911) Jørgen Zoëga (1755 – 1809) was a Danish archaeologist and numismatist. It is his interest in numismatics, the collection and...
View ArticleWHAT IS COPTIC NATIONALISM? THE IDEOLOGY THAT THE COPTS ARE A NATION
Coptic nationalism is the ideology that the Copts constitute a nation. This is the basic definition – an ideology based on the belief that the Copts constitute a cultural nation, unique and different...
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