The View from the Monasteries: Taxes, Muslims and Converts in the "Pseudepigrapha" from Middle Egypt.

This paper analyzes a group of homilies composed in Middle Egypt around the early ninth century CE by monastic leaders who had to cope with unsettling changes in local politics and society. The corpus deals with issues of taxation, economic distress and conversion to Islam in subtle and indirect way...

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Published in:	Medieval Encounters Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 297 - 345
Main Author:	Palombo, Cecilia
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2019
Subjects:	Monasteries Christian-Islam relations Literary sources Religious literature Muslims Alexandria (Egypt)
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