Gawdat Gabra
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774248924
- eISBN:
- 9781617970443
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774248924.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines the history of the Qalamun monastery in the Fayoum Oasis in Egypt during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It describes evidence concerning the four important events ...
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This chapter examines the history of the Qalamun monastery in the Fayoum Oasis in Egypt during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It describes evidence concerning the four important events related to this monastery. These events include the translation of the relics of Saint George to his church in Old Cairo, the description of the monastery by the Muslim historian al-Maqrizi, and the translation of the relics of Severus of Antioch from Dayr al-Zugag to Asyut.Less
This chapter examines the history of the Qalamun monastery in the Fayoum Oasis in Egypt during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It describes evidence concerning the four important events related to this monastery. These events include the translation of the relics of Saint George to his church in Old Cairo, the description of the monastery by the Muslim historian al-Maqrizi, and the translation of the relics of Severus of Antioch from Dayr al-Zugag to Asyut.
Paul E. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774163289
- eISBN:
- 9781617970207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774163289.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Not all of al-Maqrizi's historical works have intention and, for certain periods of the Fatimids, a detailed chronological scheme proved impossible. The historian offers nothing more about the woman ...
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Not all of al-Maqrizi's historical works have intention and, for certain periods of the Fatimids, a detailed chronological scheme proved impossible. The historian offers nothing more about the woman or her circumstances, just these few facts, which add up to a touching curiosity amid the serious business of the comings and goings of the ruler and the matters of state in which he was involved. Many other histories observe the events of a given year briefly with greater attention to a list of important men who died in it; al-Maqrizi hoped in this instance to capture as much of what had happened as he could locate, both the grand and the less grand, even bits of the mundane, little events from the realm of the strange and curious that his sources had thought interesting enough to report.Less
Not all of al-Maqrizi's historical works have intention and, for certain periods of the Fatimids, a detailed chronological scheme proved impossible. The historian offers nothing more about the woman or her circumstances, just these few facts, which add up to a touching curiosity amid the serious business of the comings and goings of the ruler and the matters of state in which he was involved. Many other histories observe the events of a given year briefly with greater attention to a list of important men who died in it; al-Maqrizi hoped in this instance to capture as much of what had happened as he could locate, both the grand and the less grand, even bits of the mundane, little events from the realm of the strange and curious that his sources had thought interesting enough to report.
