6 Nasir bin Muhammad al-Ahmed, “Bina’ al-Kina’is fi Bilad al-Muslimin [Building Churches in Muslim Lands],” Alahmad, 2008, http://alahmad.com/node/772 , translation by the author.
7 Abdullah bin Mohammed Ezkil, “In Response to Sheikh Dr. Qaradawi: Banning the Building of Churches has Consensus,” Saaid, http://www.saaid.net/Doat/Zugail/428.htm , translation by the author.
9 Ibn Taymiyya, “Hikm Hadam al-Kana’is [Ruling on Destroying Churches],” tawhed, http://www.tawhed.ws/pr?i=6472 , translation by the author.
10 Bat Ye’or, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 84–85.
11 Sidney H. Griffith, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 11.
12 Rodney Stark, God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 91.
13 Taqi Ed-Din El-Maqrizi, A Short History of the Copts and Their Church , trans. S. C. Malan (London: D. Nutt, 1873), 86.
17 For more on the role of violence in Islam and Christianity, including a comparison of the jihad and the Crusades, see Raymond Ibrahim, “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?” Middle East Quarterly 16, no. 3 (2009), 3–12, http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam .
18 Edward Peters, ed., “Speech of Urban—Robert of Rheims,” The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), 27.
19 Taqi Ed-Din El-Maqrizi, A Short History of the Copts and Their Church , trans. S. C. Malan (London: D. Nutt, 1873), 77.
23 In the original Arabic text of Maqrizi, the number is 30,000. Apparently the incredulous translator thought an extra zero was added as a typo, and concluded that the number was really 3,000. However, based on early Christian texts, the idea that there would be such large numbers of churches in Egypt and the greater Middle East is more than plausible. One early Coptic source asserts that, if a person were to walk from one end of Egypt to the other, they would never miss the sound of the church bell—a testimony to the ubiquity of churches in the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity, before Islam invaded. Ibid., 16.
24 Proper-name transliterations and calendar dating have been adjusted to modern usage. Ibid., 16, 88–91.
26 Adel Guindy, Hikayat al-Ihtilal [ Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings ] (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 88, translation by the author.
29 Mary Abdelmassih, “Egyptian Security Guards Withdrew One Hour Before Church Blast, Say Eyewitnesses,” Assyrian International News Agency, January 2, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/20110101232613.htm .
31 Mary Abdelmassih, “6 Coptic Christians in Egypt Shot Dead As They Left Christmas Mass,” Assyrian International News Agency, January 7, 2010, http://www.aina.org/news/20100107150122.htm .
45 In 1992, a church in Upper Egypt, after applying and waiting for over a year for approval, went ahead and fixed its toilet. As a result, it was heavily fined, and authorities destroyed the toilet. Paul Marshall, Their Blood Cries Out (Dallas: World Publishing, 1997), 38.