Chapter 36-40
Chapter Thirty-Six: Prophecies about the greatness of Christ and about [the flight] to Egypt...etc. 1 - But what king ever reigned and conquered […]
The Abbasids and the Church
750-969 The Abbasid Revolution: Political parties arose in the Umayyad state, such as the Zubayrids, the Kharijites, and the Shiites, which weakened the Umayyads and weakened them, so the opponents coveted their shares.
The Church in the Fatimid period
The Fatimids and the Church 843-1025 The name and title of the Church: The Egyptian Jacobites criticized Timothy, the Patriarch of Alexandria (460-482), for saying the king’s words at the Council of Chalcedon (451), so they called