00:00 - Copts in Egypt
01:40 - Ancient Egyptian Christians
08:22 - From Love to Hate and Back
16:30 - Can Egyptians Pay Taxes?
23:27 - A Minority Became a Nationality
28:26 - What Went Wrong? Copts in Modern Times

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The history of the Copts – Egyptian Christians who preserved their church, language, and ritual, surviving dozens of changes of power.

They found themselves outside the pale of official Christianity as early as the 5th century, rejected the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon, and became heretics for the Byzantine Empire. They later survived the Arab conquest, taxes, laws, exclusion from urban life, and gradual Islamization. But they did not disappear.

This episode explores the structure of the Coptic tradition, why its origins go back to the first Christian schools of Alexandria, how desert monasteries became the main force of resistance, and why a language that begins with the ancient Egyptian "Khutkapt" still lives on in Egypt.

In the video:
• Copts as descendants of the ancient Egyptians
• The Alexandrian School and its role in early Christianity
• Why the schism with Byzantium occurred
• How the Coptic Church functioned under Muslim rule
• Why they survived where empires failed

The Redrum team wishes you enjoy watching!

Films used:

Constantine the Great (1961)
Coptic Means Egyptian (2019)
September 11, 1683 (2012)
A Serious Man (2009)
Agora (2009)
Asterix Obelix Mission Cleopatra (2002)
BBC The Lost Gospels (2008)
Conquest 1453 (2012)
Coptic Egypt 2000 Years of Christianity (2013)
Destiny (1997)
El Anba Sawiros El Antaky
Exodus Gods and Kings (2014)
Kingdom Of Heaven (2005)
La Vierge, les coptes et moi (2011)
Napoleon (2023)
Omar (2012)
Pope Joan (2009)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Saladin (1963)
Suez (1938)
Teodora imperatrice di Bisanzio (1954)
THE KINGDOM WITHIN- THE WAY OF THE DESERT FATHERS (2023)
The Physician (2013)