Abd al-Masih Salib al-Masudi

This article is about the monk and author. For other uses, see Abdul Masih.

Abd al-Masih Salib al-Mas'udi^[a] (1848–1935) was an Egyptian monk and author.

Abd al-Masih Salib al-Masudi
Monk of Paromeos Monastery
Priest Abd al-Masih Salib al-Masudi
Native name	القمص عبد المسيح صليب المسعودي
Church	Coptic Orthodox Church
Personal details
Born	Egypt
Denomination	Coptic Orthodox Christian

Biography

ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masūʿdī was ordained a monk by his uncle, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kabīr, in 1874.

He served at the Paromeos Monastery at Wadi El Natrun and was summoned by Pope Cyril V of Alexandria to assist in the administration of the church in Cairo.

He learned Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic and became a prolific writer. His best known work is his interpretation of the Epact.

He died at the age of eighty-seven.^[1]

Works

In addition to his work, above, he wrote:

• Kītāb al-Khulaji al-Muqaddas, Cairo, 1903;
• Kītāb al-Tuḥfah al-Saniyyah, Cairo, 1925;
• Kītāb al-Durrah al-Nafisah fī Ḥisābāt al-Kanīsah, Cairo, 1926;
• Al-Tuḥfah al-Barāmūsiyyah fī Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā'id Hisāb Al-Abqaṭi lil-Kanīsah al-Qibṭiyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah, Cairo, 1925;
• Kītāb al-Karmah, Cairo, 1927;
• Kītāb al-Asrār , Cairo, 1926;
• Tuḥfat al-Sā'ilīn fī Dhikr Adyirat Ruhbān al-Miṣriyyīnn, Cairo, 1932.

Notes

1. Arabic: عبد المسيح صليب المسعودي