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The Church Fathers · c. 690
The Chronicle
John of Nikiu · 7th century
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What it is
A world chronicle by a Coptic bishop whose closing books describe the Arab conquest of Egypt from the point of view of the conquered population.
Why it lasted
The only substantial Egyptian Christian account of the conquest, surviving through Arabic into an Ethiopic translation.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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