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The rapid increase of rhetorical and thematic elements in Coptic literature emphasizing the land and people of Egypt during the centuries following the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) was interpreted by many scholars in the early twentieth-century as a sign of Egyptian nationalism…

The Muslim conquest of Eransahr or the world of Iran led to the collapse of the Sasanian Empire in the seventh century and brought an end to the last Persian Empire in late antiquity. The province of Khuzistan was one of the most important regions of the Sasanian Empire and it w…

The focus of this dissertation is to provide an analysis of the Futuh Misr by Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam, along with a critical look at four historical issues concerning the Islamic Conquest of Egypt as they are presented in his chronicle. Since Alfred Butler wrote his history of the Isl…