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The Virgin Made Visible: Intercessory Images of Church Territory in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2012

Angie Heo
Angie Heo*
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The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
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angie.heo@emory.edu
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In the dark midnight hours of 11 December 2009, the Virgin Mary (al-‘adhra) burst into visibility against the skyline of al-Warraq, a working-class district on the neglected peripheries of Giza, Egypt. Hovering within a glowing triad of crosses, the apparition attracted spectators to the Church of the Virgin and the Archangel Michael along the main thoroughfare, Nile Street, even in the inconvenient hours between dusk and dawn. Within days, the Virgin was being discussed far and wide by Christians and Muslims, Egyptians and foreigners, skeptics and believers. Reactions were diverse: A journalist announced to his friends, “Even if the Virgin appeared before my very eyes, I would deny her.” A cab driver explained, “It is a trick, a big laser show in the sky.” A young mother urged, “Why [forbid oneself] the joy that the Virgin brings?”

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 361 - 391
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2012

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Castelli, Elizabeth. 2007. Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
Christian, William A. 1981. Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
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Claverie, Élizabeth. 2003. Les guerres de la Vierge: une anthropologie des apparitions. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
Cohen, Raymond. 2008. Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Christians Came Together to Rescue Their Holiest Shrine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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de la Cruz, Deirdre. 2009. Coincidence and Consequence: Marianism and the Mass Media in the Global Philippines. Cultural Anthropology 24, 3: n.p.Google Scholar
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Engelke, Matthew. 2007. A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Christian Church. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
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al-Gawhary, Karim. 1996. Copts in the “Egyptian Fabric.” Middle East Report Online, Fall 1996 (no longer available from the web without a subscription).Google Scholar
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Hanks, William. 1990. Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
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Haykal, Mohamed Hassanein. 1994. Egypt's Copts Are no Minority but Part and Parcel of Egypt's Human Cultural Fabric. Al-Ahram, 22 Apr.: n.p.Google Scholar
Hirschkind, Charles. 2006. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
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Hoffman, Valerie J. 1995. Sufis, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.Google Scholar
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Makari, Peter. 2007. Conflict and Cooperation Christian-Muslim Relations in Contemporary Egypt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.Google Scholar
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Mittermaier, Amira. 2011. Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Mondzain, Marie Jose. 2005. Image, Icon, Economy: Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Image. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
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Pentcheva, Bissera. 2004. Visual Textuality: The Logos as Pregnant Body and Building. Res: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics 45: 225–38.Google Scholar
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Sha'lan, Husayn. 1986. Jerusalem and the Copts. Journal of Palestine Studies 15, 4: 178–80.Google Scholar
Sharkey, Heather. 2008. American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Shenoda, Maryann. 2007. Displacing Dhimmi, Maintaining Hope: Unthinkable Coptic Representations of Fatimid Egypt. International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, 4: 587–601.Google Scholar
Shryock, Andrew. 1997. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan. Berkeley: University of California Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Telfer, William. 1953. Episcopal Succession in Egypt. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 3: 1–13.Google Scholar
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Turner, Victor and Turner, Edith. 1978. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
Valtchinova, Galia. 2009. Re-inventing the Past, Re-enchanting the Future: Visionaries and National Grandeur in Interwar Bulgaria. In Christian, William and Klaniczay, Gábor, eds., The ‘Vision Thing’: Studying Divine Intervention. Budapest: Collegium Budapest Workshop Series.Google Scholar
Van der Veer, Peter. 1994. Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
The Virgin in Zeitoun. 1968. Official Report of Papal Commission in 1968. Led by Bishop Gregorious, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate. Cairo: n.p.Google Scholar
Voegelin, Eric. 1962. World-Empire and the Unity of Mankind. Royal Institute of International Affairs 38, 2: 170–88.Google Scholar
Voegelin, Eric. 1974. Order and History. Vol. 4: The Ecumenic Age. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Press.Google Scholar
Zaki, Pearl. 1977. Our Lord's Mother Visits Egypt in 1968 and 1969. Cairo: Dar El Alam El Arabi.Google Scholar