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Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt : Three Arabic Commentaries on the Coptic Liturgy
ISBN: 9780823298341
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Fordham University Press
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An English translation of three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā', and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus, this volume provides a useful and needed introduction to the worship tradition of Egypt's Coptic Christians.

Arsenius Mikhail is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Theological School in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy .ibn Sabbā' Yūḥannā :

Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā' (13-14th centuries) was the compiler of the Coptic theological encyclopedia The Precious Jewel on the Ecclesiastical Sciences
( al-Jawharah al-nafīsah fī 'ulūm al-kanīsah ).

Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar (d. 1324) was a Coptic priest and theologian and the author of The Lamp of Darkness and the Elucidation of the Service ( Mișbâḥ al-ẓulmah wa-îḍāḥ al-khidmah ).

Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā' (Author)
Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā' (13-14th centuries) was the compiler of the Coptic theological encyclopedia The Precious Jewel on the Ecclesiastical Sciences
( al-Jawharah al-nafīsah fī 'ulūm al-kanīsah ).

Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar (Author)
Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar (d. 1324) was a Coptic priest and theologian and the author of The Lamp of Darkness and the Elucidation of the Service ( Mișbâḥ al-ẓulmah wa-îḍāḥ al-khidmah ).

Gabriel V of Alexandria (Author)
Pope Gabriel V of Alexandria (r. 1409-1427) was the 88th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.

Arsenius Mikhail (Edited & Translated By)
Arsenius Mikhail is Professor of Liturgical Studies at St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Theological School in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy .