Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) ( ar, جودت جبرا,

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; he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities –

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities

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– Germany 1978. He studied in the Institute of Egyptology of the

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, too. He is the former director of the

Coptic Museum The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities. The museum traces the history of Egypt from its be ...

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

(1985) and currently a visiting professor in Coptic Studies at

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. He is the author or the co-author, among other titles, of: *''Christianity and

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Upper Egypt Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. In ancient ...

Akhmim Akhmim ( ar, أخميم, ; Akhmimic , ; Sahidic/Bohairic cop, ) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. Referred to by the ancient Greeks as Khemmis or Chemmis ( grc, Χέμμις) and Panopolis ( grc, Πανὸς πόλις and Π� ...

and

Sohag Sohag ( , ), also spelled as ''Sawhāj'', ''Suhag'' and ''Suhaj'', is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was ...

'' (Gabra and Takla 2008) *''The Churches of Egypt: From the Journey of the

Holy Family The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first ...

to the Present Day'' (Gabra, Van Loon, and Sonbol 2007) *''The Treasures of

Coptic Art Coptic art is the Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches. Coptic art is best known for its wall-paintings, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and metalwork, much of which survives in monasteries an ...

in the Coptic Museum and Churches of

Old Cairo Old Cairo (Arabic: مصر القديمة , Miṣr al-Qadīma, Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the site of a Roman-era fortress and of Islamic-era settlements pre-dating the founding of ...

'' (Alcock and Gabra 2007) *''Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture'' (Gabra and Vivian 2002) *''Christian Egypt:

and Monuments Through Two Millennia'' (Capuani, Meinardus, Rutschowscaya and Gabra 2002) *''Icons of the Nile Valley'' (main author

Zuzana Skálová Zuzana Skálová (born 30 March 1945 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech historian of medieval art, restorer and teacher of restoring of Coptic icons, who was settled and active from 1989 till 1996 in Egypt. She restored and taught restoring of ...

. (Egyptian International Publishing Company – Longman, 1st Edition 2003, 2nd Edition 2006; *''Be Thou There: The Holy Family's Journey in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

'' (Gabra 2001) Gabra also contributed the following articles to the

Coptic Encyclopedia The ''Coptic Encyclopedia'' is an eight-volume work covering the history, theology, language, art, architecture, archeology and hagiography of Coptic Egypt. The encyclopedia was written by over 250 Western and Egyptian contributing experts in the ...

: *"Saint Pisentius" (co-authored with C. Detlef G. Muller) *"Nabis" *"Patape" (co-authored with Rene-Georges Coquin) *"Hajir Idfu"

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Dr. Gabra's page on the Coptic Museum siteDr. Gabra articles in the Coptic Encyclopedia

Books by Gawdat Gabra
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabra, Gawdat 21st-century Egyptian historians Coptologists Claremont Graduate University faculty University of Münster alumni 1947 births Living people 20th-century Egyptian historians

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