Copts and Their Role in Orientalism:  Analytic Study

Prof. Mohammed Abed Marzook, Asst.; Ph.D,

	Copts and Their Role in Orientalism: Analytic Study
Journal of The Iraqi University
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 37, 2018, Pages 360-387
Authors
Asst. Prof. Mohammed Abed Marzook;
Abstract
The disagreement between the Copt Christian ideologists and the Muslim ideologists is progressing excessively. The difference is diverging and its details are increasing. The seriousness of this disagreement is not limited to specific historical eras. It grows nowadays with the help of the instigation of the West. In spite of the fact that they represent a minority beside a huge majority of Arab Muslims in Egypt, the Copt ideologists depend on the power of the West and think it will enhance and enforce their stance in this disagreement. They do not head the bitter historical experiences with the West when it exploited the cause of the Copts to achieve its own interests only. This paper deals with this struggle in which orientalism and its strong relation to what is happening nowadays are apparent. Orientalism is feeding this disagreement with its ideologies, which are mostly translated into tangible reality. The consequences and reverberations of this reality affect the Muslims, in general, and the Egyptian people, in particular. The study does not condemn the Egyptian people for this disagreement which is leading to many banes. It will, however, indicate accusingly to the expatriates, who lived in the Western states, who have been planted to instigate dissection. They are related to orientalism and they have been its trademark tools. These are Copt ideologists, or their imitators, who converted in their ideologies to Christianity. The paper will state examples of such persons and research their most important viewpoints. The study will not underestimate the viewpoints of the modern Muslim and Coptic ideologists who have respected the nearness of the Muslims and preferred it to the intrigues and enticements of the West. Lots of these have active and reasonable attitudes towards this type of orientalism. This study will research questions such as: Who are the Copts? What do they want? Are all Copts related to the West and its tools? What is their relation to orientalism, the strong arm of the West? Does the Copts' Christianity resemble that of the West, or is it religiously different from it? Historically, have the Copts benefitted from the West? Through history, who gave justice to the Copts in Egypt: their fellow religion Christians, Western Christians or Muslims?

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