'Abd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masū'dī (1848–1935) was an Egyptian
monk
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and
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.
Biography
'Abd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masū'dī was ordained a monk by his uncle, 'Abd al-Masīḥ al-Kabīr, in 1874.
He served at the
Paromeos Monastery
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at
Wadi El Natrun
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and was summoned by
Pope Cyril V of Alexandria
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to assist in the administration of the church in
Cairo
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.
He learned
Hebrew
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,
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,
Greek
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, and
Coptic
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Afro-Asia
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* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
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and became a prolific writer. His best known work is his interpretation of the ''Epact''.
He died at the age of eighty-seven.
Atiya, Aziz S.
Aziz Suryal Atiya ( ar, عزيز سوريال عطية, ; July 5, 1898 – September 24, 1988) was an Egyptian Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies.
Atiya was the founder of the I ...
''The Coptic Encyclopedia
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.'' New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991.
Works
In addition to his work, above, he wrote:
*''Kītāb al-Khulaji al-Muqaddas'', Cairo, 1903;
*''Kītāb al-Tuḥfah al-Saniyyah'', Cairo, 1925;
*''Kītāb al-Durrah al-Nafisah fī Ḥisābāt al-Kanīsah'', Cairo, 1926;
*''Al-Tuḥfah al-Barāmūsiyyah fī Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā'id Hisāb Al-Abqaṭi lil-Kanīsah al-Qibṭiyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah'', Cairo, 1925;
*''Kītāb al-Karmah'', Cairo, 1927;
*''Kītāb al-Asrār '', Cairo, 1926;
*''Tuḥfat al-Sā'ilīn fī Dhikr Adyirat Ruhbān al-Miṣriyyīnn'', Cairo, 1932.
References
1848 births
1935 deaths
Egyptian writers
Oriental Orthodox monks
Egyptian Oriental Orthodox Christians
Egyptian Christian monks
19th-century Christian monks
20th-century Christian monks
19th-century Oriental Orthodox Christians
20th-century Oriental Orthodox Christians
Coptic Orthodox Christians from Egypt
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