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A printed and bound textbook. al- Jam'iyyat al-Khayriyyah al-Kibtiyyah al-Kubra (Fiftieth Anniversary Golden Jubilee: History of the Coptic Tawfiq Society in fifty years 1881-1930.), [Cairo: The Coptic Tawfiq Society Publication, 1930]. The Coptic Tawfiq Society, founded at Yusuf Moftah's home on the 8th of January 1881, was one of the most influential of the philanthropic societies that proliferated in the late 19th and early 20th century in Egypt. Several of Moftah's family were members.
Arrangement is by title.
BOX 8 Fiftieth anniversary Golden Jubilee: History of the society in fifty years from 1881-1930; printed, 243 p.; with photocopy inserts and notes, [] p.
DF Digital Files, 2004-2018
Digital ID: Moftah_001
996 digital files
This series consists of text and image files contained on Laurence Moftah's (niece of Ragheb Moftah) hard drive. The text files include essays, biographies, and bibliographies about various members of the Moftah family and other figures of importance to Coptic Orthodox liturgy and music, descriptions of Coptic Christian rituals and liturgy, accounts of monasteries and churches, and correspondence about the Moftah family legacy. Information about the acquisition of the Ragheb Moftah Collection is contained in several text files, as well as the role of the American University in Cairo in preserving parts of the Iryan Moftah manuscripts. Some of the text files include images pasted within them and/or are in Arabic. The image files in the series encompass photographs of Laurence Moftah, Ragheb Moftah, and other figures of relevance to the Moftah family, as well as scanned correspondence related to the Moftah Collection.
Principle file formats: .doc, .jpg, .pdf
Original file order has been maintained.

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