Rebellion and Conversion: Christian Copts and Muslim Rulers in Egypt, the Second and Third Centuries A. H.

Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation

معصومعلی  پنجه ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2012-12-05 Accepted : 2013-02-09 Published : 2013-02-19

Keywords: Islamization of Egypt, Egyptian tax system, Copts riots, Conversion to Islam,

Abstract :

A series of riots took place in Egypt by Christian Copts against theUmayyad and Abbasid rulers since 107 to 216 A. H. In this paper, thecontext, causes and consequences of the riots have been investigated.It is apparent that gradual changes in the financial and the landholdingsystems, which were started in the Abdul Aziz ibn Marwan's reigncontinued to be completed in the Hisham ibn Abdul Malik's era.Increasing tax was pursued by Copts riots in Egypt. The riots werefruitless for Copts, as the taxes never cut, but it was another way;converting to Islam and absorbing into Islamic-Arabic Society inEgypt