This article examines the interaction of Coptic Christians with Islamic legal institutions in provincial Egypt on the basis of a corpus of 193 Arabic legal documents, as well as relevant Coptic ones, dating to the 2nd-5th/8th-11th centuries. I argue that around the 3rd/9th century Islamic Egypt’s Christian subjects began to make routine use of Islamic legal institutions to organize their economic affairs, including especially inheritance and related matters internal to Christian families. They did so in preference to the Christian authorities and Coptic deeds that had been their standard resource in the first two centuries of Muslim rule. The changing character of the Egyptian judiciary encouraged this shift in practice, as qāḍīs who adhered to fiqh procedural rules increasingly filled judicial roles formerly held by administrative officials. By eschewing and nudging into disuse a previously vital Coptic legal tradition, Christian provincials participated in the Islamization of ʿAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Egypt.

本文根据193个阿拉伯法律文件以及相关的科普特法律文献的语料库，研究了科普特基督徒与埃及省埃及的伊斯兰法律机构之间的互动，该文献可以追溯到2-5-5 / 8-11世纪。我认为，大约在3世纪/ 9世纪，伊斯兰埃及的基督教徒开始定期利用伊斯兰法律机构来组织其经济事务，尤其是基督教家庭内部的继承和相关事务。他们这样做是优先于基督教当局和科普特人的事迹，后者在穆斯林统治的前两个世纪一直是他们的标准资源。埃及司法机关的改变性格鼓励在实践中这种转变，因为卡迪Ş谁遵守教律程序规则越来越多地填补了行政官员以前担任的司法职务。通过避免和废止以前至关重要的科普特法律传统，基督教各省参加了ʿAbbāsid和Fāṭimid埃及的伊斯兰化。