Ragheb Moftah Writer

Dr. Ragheb Moftah (1898–2001) was an Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage. He co-authored the article on "Coptic Music" for the Coptic Encyclopedia. He spent much of his life studying the recording and notation of Coptic liturgical texts. The son of Habashi Moftah and Labiba Shalaby, Moftah was one of 9 children.

Personal facts

Birth dateDecember 21, 1898
Birth place
Cairo , Egypt
Nationality
Egypt
Date of deathJune 16, 2001
Place of death
Cairo , Egypt

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Abdel Messih El-MakariSaint
Dioscorus of AphroditoWriter
Abel of Tacla HaimonotSaint
Antonios NaguibCleric

Ragheb Moftah on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cce/id/1446
  2. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200182364/default.html
  3. http://mycoptic.blogspot.com/2008/10/ragheb-moftah-musical-resurrection.html
  4. http://st-takla.org/Gallery/Saints-and-Figures/10-Reh/Ragheb-Moftah.html
  5. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/411/people.htm
  6. http://www.coptic.org/music/today.htm
  7. http://www.coptic.org/music/watson.html
  8. http://www.copticassembly.com/showart.php?main_id=298
  9. http://www.copticmedical.com/Meetingss.htm