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The Copts in Twenty Centuries: A Short History

The Copts in Twenty Centuries: A Short History

Paperback

Ancient Egypt

ISBN10: 9490615250
ISBN13: 9789490615253
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
How did the Islamization of Egypt happen?In less than 170 years, after the Arab conquest in 641, Egypt did change from being an Egyptian speaking and Christian country, into Arabic speaking and predominantly Islamic one.How did this happen?For almost one thousand years Egypt experienced the rule of the Greeks, the Romans and the Byzantines, yet the Egyptians did not change neither their language nor their religion.Egypt was a Christian nation for nine centuries.What did happen to Egypt after the e Arab conquest? How did the Arab and other Islamic rulers established in Damascus, Baghdad and Istanbul treated the Egyptians, the Copts?Here is one extremely harsh reality of two thousand years of prosecution, harassment, discrimination, subjection, and segregation.

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