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"I made you bear a son, and you shall call his name Mena!" The Saint, the Egg, and Medieval Nubia

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Deptuła A.
Vox Patrum
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2025
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vol. 94
193-212
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This article examines the Old Nubian Miracle of St Menas, preserved in the British Library Ms. Or. 6805, as a unique testimony to Christian traditions in medieval Nubia. While sharing certain motifs with earlier miracles known from Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources, this text presents a distinctive narrative absent in other traditions. The article is structured around two main sections: the historical and cultural context of medieval Nubia and a detailed analysis of the miracle, focusing on its connections to other Menas traditions. The analysis employs a comparative method, juxtaposing the Old Nubian text with earlier textual sources. Material evidence, including paintings and inscriptions, is also incorporated to contextualize the miracle within broader Nubian Christian practices. The text, either translated into Old Nubian or partially composed in this language, references symbols and concepts familiar to a local Nubian audience.
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L’influence du Kitāb ahbār al-Nūba d’Ibn Sulaym al-Uswānī sur l’Histoire des églises et monastères d’Égypte d’Abū al-Makārim

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Seignobos R.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2019
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vol. XXXII
199-216
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The Kitāb ahbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of churches and monasteries of Egypt (= HEME) composed in the late twelfth–early thirteenth century by Abū al-Makārim (and others), have long been recognised as the best-informed Arabic sources concerning Medieval Nubia. However, the textual relations between the two works have not attracted much attention in modern scholarship, despite the intriguing presence in both texts of seemingly similar descriptions. The aim of the present article is to investigate the nature of the link connecting the two accounts through a close comparison of the four passages that appear to be textually related.
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