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The Medieval Church · c. 1300–1324
The Lamp of Darkness
Misbah al-Zulma
Abu al-Barakat ibn Kabar · d. 1324
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What it is
An encyclopaedia of Coptic Christianity — doctrine, canon law, liturgy, the calendar, and a catalogue of the church's Arabic and Coptic books.
Why it lasted
The summary of Coptic learning at the end of its Arabic golden age, and an essential guide to what that literature contained.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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