This bibliography lists academic works on contemporary Coptic Orthodox theology, history and identity. It is arranged alphabetically. To suggest additions, please contact us.
See also ACCOT texts filed under: Sunday School Movement, Papal letters and Coptology.
Books
Atiya, Aziz S. The History of Eastern Christianity. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. (Amazon)
Carter, B. L. The Copts in Egyptian Politics. 1918–1952. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1988.
Fanous, Daniel. The Silent Patriarch: Kyrillos VI (1902–1971). Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2019.
Gille, Matthias. 2017. Der koptische Papst Schenuda III: Beobachtungen zu Theologie und Biografie. Anwendungsorientierte Religionswissenschaft, vol. 11. Baden-Baden: Tectum Verlag. (Tectum Verlag)
Guirguis, Magdi. & van Doorn-Harder, Nelly. The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy. The Popes of Egypt: A History of the Coptic Church and Its Patriarchs, Volume 3. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011.
Hasan, S. S. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Heo, Angie. The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018.
Kamil, Jill. Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church. London: Routledge, 2002.
Meinardus, Otto. Christian Egypt: Ancient and Modern. Cairo, Egypt: French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, 1965.
——— Christian Egypt: Faith and Life. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1970.
——— Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1999.
——— Christians in Egypt: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities Past and Present. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2006.
Reiss, Wolfram. Erneuerung in der Koptisch-Orthodoxen Kirche. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1998.
Shenoda, Anthony. “Cultivating Mystery: Miracles and a Coptic Moral Imaginary.” PhD Dissertation. Harvard University, 2010.
Suriel, Bishop. Habib Girgis: Coptic Orthodox Educator and a Light in the Darkness. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladamir’s Seminary Press, 2017. (Amazon)
Tadros, Samuel. Motherland Lost: The Egyptian Quest for Modernity. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2013
Wakin, E. A Lonely Minority: The Modern Story of Egypt’s Copts. 1st edn 1963. Revised edn, iUniverse, 2000.
Watson, John H. Among the Copts. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2000.
van Doorn-Harder, Pieternella. Contemporary Coptic Nuns. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
Articles
Armanios, Febe. “The ‘Virtuous Woman’: Images of Gender in Modern Coptic Society.” Middle Eastern Studies 38, no. February 2013 (2010): 37–41.
Bebawi, George. “Road to Emmaus With the Desert Fathers of Egypt: Coptic Christianity Today.” Road to Emmaus 10, no. 3 (2009): 3–37.
Chaillot, Christine. “The Life and Situation of the Coptic Orthodox Church Today.” Studies in World Christianity 15, no. 3 (2009): 199–216.
Davis, Stephen J. “Monastic Revivals.” In Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family, 260–270. Edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder. University of California Press, 2017.
Ibrahim, Vivian. “Beyond the cross and the crescent: plural identities and the Copts in contemporary Egypt.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 38, no. 14 (2015): 2584–2597.
Lukasik, Candace. “Conquest of Paradise: Secular Binds and Coptic Political Mobilization.” Middle East Critique 25, no. 2 (2016): 107–125.
O’Mahony, Anthony. “Coptic Christianity in Modern Egypt.” In The Cambridge History of Christianity, Vol. 5, edited by Michael Angold, 488–510. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
——— “Tradition at the Heart of Renewal: The Coptic Orthodox Church and Monasticism in Modern Egypt.” International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 7, no. 3 (2007): 164–78.
Ramzy, Carolyn M. “To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt’s Coptic Christians.” Ethnos 80, no. 5 (2015): 649–670.
Sedra, Paul. “Class Cleavages and Ethnic Conflict : Coptic Christian Communities in Modern Egyptian Politics.” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 10, no. 2 (1999): 219–35.
——— “John Lieder and His Mission in Egypt: The Evangelical Ethos at Work among Nineteenth-Century Copts.” Journal of Religious History 28, no. 3 (2004): 219–39.
——— “Writing the History of the Modern Copts: From Victims and Symbols to Actors.” History Compass 7, no. 3 (May 2009): 1049–63.
Seikaly, Samir. “Coptic Communal Reform: 1860-1914.” Middle Eastern Studies 6, no. 3 (1970): 247–75.
Suriel, Bishop. “Habib Jirjis: Reformer of Religious Education in the Coptic Orthodox Church,” 2011, 1–7. http://www.religiouseducation.net/rea2012/files/2012/10/RIG2.4-Suriel.pdf.
Tadros, Mariz. “Vicissitudes in the Entente between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the State in Egypt (1952–2007).” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2009): 269–87.
Youssef, Joseph. “From the Blood of St. Mina to the Martyrs of Maspero: Commemoration, Identity, and Social Memory in the Coptic Orthodox Church.” Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 5 (2013): 61–73.