Aziz Suryal Atiya
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Professor Aziz Suryal Atiya (Arabic: عزيز سوريال عطية; July 5, 1898 - September 24, 1988)[1] was a prominent Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies.
Professor Atiya was the founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies in cairo in 1950s , and was also the Founder of the Middle East center, University of Utah.[2].
His library The Aziz Atiya Library for Middle East Studies at University of Utah is considered the fifth largest such collection in North America and is recognized internationally as a major research library in this field.[3]
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Professor Atiya in 1938 published a large study The Crusades in the Later Middle Ages, he was also the first author of The Coptic Encyclopedia which was published in 1991.
The chapters on the Copts in his book 'The History of Eastern Christianity' (1968) have become landmarks, not only for specialists but also for the general public.[2]
It was Atiya who, after many lively debates with the publishers and their readers, had the words 'Coptology' and 'Coptologist' introduced into the English language." (John H. Watson, Among the Copts)
He could speak Egyptian, English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Latin, and to a lesser extent, Spanish, Greek, Coptic, Turkish, Welsh, and Dutch.
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- Aziz S. Atiya Biography
- Atiya, Aziz S.. The Coptic Encyclopedia. New York:Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991. ISBN 0-02-897025-X.
- Books titles by Aziz Suryal Atiya
