Books by Youhanna Youssef

In the early fourteenth century, the Patriarch of the Coptic Church, Ibn Qiddis, composed and paraphrased - in Coptic - the Theotokias. This book introduces the author, John Ibn Qiddis, his liturgical, pastoral, and literary activities, and the Coptic language of his time, followed by the texts and an English translation.

Although his life and writings came to our knowledge in Syriac, gaining him the title "Crown of the Syriac Literature," many texts relating to his life and works survived in the Coptic and Copto-Arabic tradition, as well as a number of other texts that were traditionally attributed to him.