The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, and Traditional Egyptian Christianity

Reviewer
Robert Brenton Betts
Reviewer Title
Associate Professor, American University of Beirut
Publishing Info
The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude, by Bat Ye'or. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1996. (First published in French as "Les Chretiennes d'Orient entre Jihad et Dhimmitude, Vlle-X.Xe siecle, 1991.) 515 pages. $19.95, hardcover. Traditional Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church, by Theodore Hall Patrick. Greensboro, NC: Fisher Fork Press, 1996. Xiv plus 226 pages, bibliography and index. $14.95, paper.

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