The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period b
Race, Law and Unruliness offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of tho
Wadi al-Natrun, a depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, is one of the most important centers for the development and continual thriving of the Coptic monastic tradition. Christianity and monastic
Saint John the Little was a monk and hegumen of Scetis (Wadi Natrun) during the first great period of early Egyptian monasticism. TheApophthegmata preserve some fifty sayings by or about him (see CS 5
