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A Sword Over the Nile
Adel Guindy has produced a timely and authoritative account of the Copts’ story. It deserves to be widely read… this timely and excellent book will act as a wakeup call.... It reminds us that historically, the Copts have been Egypt’s beating heart and that Egypt’s future, without them, would be bleak indeed.
Professor Lord Alton, Member of the British House of Lords
A Sword Over the Nile is a most welcome book and contribution to the existing literature. Here in one volume, we have the largely unknown historical experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christians under Islam—and from the most primary if previously inaccessible or untranslated sources. Not only is it a window to the past; it may be an ominous look to the future.
Raymond Ibrahim, an expert on Islamic doctrine
and history, is author of Sword and Scimitar:
Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
Professor Lord Alton, Member of the British House of Lords
A Sword Over the Nile is a most welcome book and contribution to the existing literature. Here in one volume, we have the largely unknown historical experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christians under Islam—and from the most primary if previously inaccessible or untranslated sources. Not only is it a window to the past; it may be an ominous look to the future.
Raymond Ibrahim, an expert on Islamic doctrine
and history, is author of Sword and Scimitar:
Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
414 pages, Paperback
Published June 30, 2020
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March 27, 2022
It is a miracle of faith that Christianity is still surviving in Egypt. With perseverance, stubbornness and great endurance, Copts are one of the few Christians sects in the Middle East still surviving the brutal prosecution of Islam since it’s forceful conquest in the seventh century until the present day.
This great book is a chronicle of Coptic suffering under the Islamic totalitarian system- what the author dubs “Islamocrat”!
It is a must read to any western who has the delusion that Islam could be tolerant. I say westerns because people living in The East do not have such delusions!
This great book is a chronicle of Coptic suffering under the Islamic totalitarian system- what the author dubs “Islamocrat”!
It is a must read to any western who has the delusion that Islam could be tolerant. I say westerns because people living in The East do not have such delusions!
September 7, 2022
This is a wake up call /read for the ones who are bought into the false image of Islam is a religion of peace propaganda.
The sword is the center peice of Islam, it's the base of their religion and ideology, as their famous saying ( Peace is only I'm the house of Islam, the rest of the world is house of war) confirms it 100%.
The sword is the center peice of Islam, it's the base of their religion and ideology, as their famous saying ( Peace is only I'm the house of Islam, the rest of the world is house of war) confirms it 100%.
July 18, 2024
This book is a very fine history of the oppression of Copts in Egypt. The author remains unbiased throughout this work.
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