Note 37 — Chapter V
Reading edition
There are numerous notices of this intimacy between the caliphs and the Coptic monks in the work of the Armenian Christian Abu-Salih, written between 1173 and 1208, and excellently edited, translated, and annotated by Mr B. T. A. Evetts with the assistance of Dr A. J. Butler (The Churches and Monasteries of Egpyt, Anecdota Oxon, 1895): see especially foll. 7b, 34b-36, 40b, 46b, 84a.