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concept-1728	none	I Trust the Gospel and All Its Contents: The Disputation of Jirji the Monk and Medieval Islamic Knowledge of the Bible	2014	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6771	294	59	The Monk explains that, in all that time, and with the incredible extent of Christianity—which the Moslem does not dispute, but in fact says that there were more Christians then “than there are now”—there would have been no way 49 Ibid. Jirji’s successes at defending Christianity against the Muslims, and his clever arguments against Islam, seem to have been a very popular read among Coptic Christians, who had six manuscripts of the Disputation dating at least to the seventeenth century.1 The narrative, written as part of a genre of Christian literature dedicated to defending the truth of Christianity, succeeds in bolstering the religion, always an important goal for Christians, but particularly during an era of crusades.	cache/concept-1728.pdf	txt/concept-1728.txt