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bijoumikhawal · 10 months ago

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Not to mention ur og posts?? I like kind of forgot that u write the posts on Coptic history until I sent the ask and saw ur profile again, but they’re so interesting and they open my eyes to a whole world of non-secular Coptic history. Crazy…

thank you! And yeah I like talking about Coptic art and material culture a lot- it can be dicey because of. Various academic nonsenses, but I still really enjoy it

#cipher talk #Hilariously I like Late Antiquity/pre-Islamic Coptic art partially because it's more secular #Like there's obviously religious symbolism everywhere but it feels like there was more freedom in playing with ideas and still being Coptic #Then again that era also had more religious diversity among Copts for most of it- most were still Christians after a certain point but ther #Were also Manicheans and pagans for a bit and maybe Jews. I still can't find a clear historical answer on the last one #There's a like. Weird trend these days to only show icon painters and such as 'coptic artists'#They do good work but Copts do a lot more kinds of art than just icons #It's not that Pre-Islamic Coptic art was pre-colonial; no such thing really exists for Copts because Copts became Copts while occupied #By an empire and we haven't had a like. Independent self rule thing since lmao #But there were different concerns for artists and jewelers and tailors

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