| Intro | Egyptian monk and author |
| Was |
Writer Monk |
| From | Egypt |
| Type |
Literature Religion |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
1 January 1848 |
| Death |
1 January 1935 |
‘Abd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masū’dī (1848–1935) was an Egyptian monk and author.
Biography
‘Abd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masū’dī was ordained a monk by his uncle, ‘Abd al-Masīḥ al-Kabīr, in 1874.
He served at the Paromeos Monastery at Wadi El Natrun and was summoned by Pope Cyril V of Alexandria to assist in the administration of the church in Cairo . He learned Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic and became a prolific writer. His best known work is his interpretation of the Epact.
He died at the age of eighty-seven.
Works
In addition to his work, above, he wrote:
- Kītāb al-Khulaji al-Muqaddas, Cairo, 1903;
- Kītāb al-Tuḥfah al-Saniyyah, Cairo, 1925;
- Kītāb al-Durrah al-Nafisah fī Ḥisābāt al-Kanīsah, Cairo, 1926;
- Al-Tuḥfah al-Barāmūsiyyah fī Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā’id Hisāb Al-Abqaṭi lil-Kanīsah al-Qibṭiyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah, Cairo, 1925;
- Kītāb al-Karmah, Cairo, 1927;
- Kītāb al-Asrār , Cairo, 1926;
- Tuḥfat al-Sā’ilīn fī Dhikr Adyirat Ruhbān al-Miṣriyyīnn, Cairo, 1932.