Lisa Agaiby, Ph.D., Macquarie University and Göttingen University, lectures in History and Coptic Studies at St. Athanasius College, University of Divinity Melbourne. Her latest publication is The Arabic Life of Antony Attributed to Serapion of Thmuis: Cultural Memory Reinterpreted (Brill, 2018). Mark N. Swanson, Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of Christian-Muslim Studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. His publications on Egyptian church history and Copto-Arabic literature include The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641-1517 (AUC Press, 2010).Nelly van Dooren-Harder teaches Religion at Wake Forest University, NC. She has authored several publications on the contemporary Coptic Church, her latest includes the edited volume Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity (University of South Carolina Press, 2017).

• PrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsNotes on Transliteration and Common AbbreviationsIntroductionLisa Agaiby, Mark Swanson and Nelly van Doorn-HarderPart 1 History1 The Ottoman Tanzimat Edict of 1856 and Its Consequences for the Christians of Egypt: The Rashomon Effect in Coptic HistoryHeather Sharkey2 A Correspondence between Rome and Alexandria in the Middle Ages: An Example from the Eighteenth CenturyMagdi Awad3 A New Contribution to Understanding the Pastoral Care of Pope Peter VII (1809–1852)Bigoul El-Suriany4 Pope Mark VIII (1796–1809), the Author of Psalis for St. MarkYouhanna N. Youssef5 Printing the Medieval Copto-Arabic Heritage: From the ‘Golden Age’ to the Printed PageMark N. Swanson6 The Coptic Papacy in the Twentieth Century and beyond: A Study of the Papal Selection Process in the Modern EraPeter H. CosmanPart 2 Education, Leadership, and Service7 Habib Girgis: Reformer of Religious and Theological Education in the Coptic Orthodox ChurchBishop Suriel8 An Example of Coptic Leadership and Patronage: Lay-Archon Louis Zikri Wissa and Sixty Years Commitment in the Sunday School MovementMyriam Wissa9 Bishop Samuel’s Ministry of Teaching and Serving: The Formative YearsCherubim Saed and Nelly van Doorn-Harder10 The Idea of Personal Ascetic Reform in Kyrillos VI (1902–1971)Daniel Fanous11 “Draughts of Love and Divine Revelations”: Experiential Theology in Matta Al-Miskīn and Fayek M. IshakSamuel Kaldas12 A Multidimensional Understanding of Sunday School in the Coptic Orthodox TraditionMichael Salib13 Mother Irini’s Visions of Leadership: Pachomian Rule and Teaching of the FathersNelly van Doorn-HarderPart 3 Identity and Material Culture14 “Sign of Martyrdom, Heresy and Pride”: The Christian Coptic Tattoo and the Construction of Coptic IdentityNebojsa Tumara15 The Cenotaph in the Cave Church of St. Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea: A Case Study of a Dream in the Twentieth CenturyLisa Agaiby and Shady Nessim16 Coptic Religious Heritage: Is There a Future for the Past?Karel Innemee17 The Ideological Dimensions of Coptic Music Theory: Evolution of Musical Theorization as a Cultural StrategyNicholas RaghebIndex