For the Sake of Marguirguis

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" For the Sake of Marguirguis "
Mina Ibrahim

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066155
Doc. No	:	LA109784
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24685968-04010001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mina Ibrahim
Title & Author	:	For the Sake of Marguirguis [Article]\ Mina Ibrahim
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Endowment Studies
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	4/1-2
Page No	:	66–91
Abstract	:	This contribution endeavors to show that building and administrating Coptic charitable associations according to the laws of the Egyptian Ministry of Social Affairs (mosa) does not mean allying with or challenging one of the two institutions that claim control over the Coptic Christian ethics of giving in Egypt: the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and the Egyptian government. Especially since my interlocutors are simultaneously integral subjects of the waqf properties (endowments, i.e. the parishes) administered by the institutional Church, they are less interested in negotiating a true definition of such a practice. Beyond the power dynamics that have played out over the orthodoxy of religious practices and that are intensively analyzed in existing literature, I argue that maintaining relations with the two official entities that govern Christian charity in Egypt invites thinking about interactions developed within the context of a heavenly community. Instead of focusing on the competition of who holds and authorizes the better form of the Coptic Christian tradition of khidma (service), I suggest that the interactions with this divine community are sometimes intertwined with overlooked invisible and inaudible meanings of dissent and activism among members of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	charity
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Copts
Descriptor	:	divine community
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	History Culture
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Medieval History
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	Religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	tradition
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24685968-04010001‬