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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

silent victims, Crusades, Copts, middle ages, Christianity

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

My Attempt, with this research project, was to analyze the relationship of a small minority Christian group called the Copts, with the larger more powerful ruling body of Muslims called the Mamluks, during the Middle-Ages. Much of what I discovered was found as I was researching these topics in two separate classes, History 302 and English 315, that I took this year. The Mamluks had come to power in the Thirteenth Century after they defeated of the European Christians in the Crusades. This set up a fertile soil for religious persecution by the Mamluks, since Christianity had been their vehement enemy for so long. However, Islam has had a history of being relatively tolerant of the minority religious groups they ruled. My initial attempt was to highlight Islam’s success in keeping their traditions of religious tolerance even during such volatile years as the crusades.

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