#Also I have seen tefillin misfiled as 'Islamic art' because they happened to be made in Egypt which is weird | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bijoumikhawal · 1 year

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Certain academics will say "we shouldn't call it Coptic art because that erases all the Greek and Roman people living in Egypt then" but they'll file art from periods when Egypt was still majority Christian even while under Islamic leaders as "Islamic art"

#cipher talk #Personally I'm not. Horribly offended by the latter but it's interesting to see what I've seen academic fussing over and what I haven't #Also its telling in the first case that they never mention the other groups that don't really fall under the Coptic label as being erased #(Most of the other groups are not considered 'European' which feels like bias but so does the whole conversation)#Also I have seen tefillin misfiled as 'Islamic art' because they happened to be made in Egypt which is weird

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