The Martyrdom of Jirjis (Muzāḥim): Hagiography and Coptic Orthodox Imagination in Early Fatimid Egypt
The tenth-century neomartyr Jirjis (called Muzāḥim before his conversion to Christianity and baptism) is well known from the précis of his Martyrdom preserved in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion (entry for 19 Baʾūna). The full text of the Martyrdom (as preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript Cairo...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2015, Volume: 21, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 431-451 |
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The Martyrdom of Jirjis (Muzāḥim)
The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria
the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion
martyrdom
apostasy
conversion
baptism
the Rite of the Jar
Jirjis (Muzāḥim)
women in Copto-Arabic texts [Saywālā, the martyr’s wife]
al-Ḥākim
evaluative stance
identity definition
“hidden transcript”
“public transcript”
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