شورش و گروش :قبطیان مسیحی و حاکمان مسلمان در مصر سده های دوم و سوم هجری

abstractsrebellion and conversion: christian copts and muslim rulers in egypt, the second and third centuries a. h.masoumali panjeh assistant professor, department of history & civilization of islamic nations, science and research branch, islamic azad university, tehran, iran a series of riots took place in egypt by christian copts against the umayyad and abbasid rulers since 107 to 216 a. h. in this paper, the context, causes and consequences of the riots have been investigated. it is apparent that gradual changes in the financial and the landholding systems, which were started in the abdul aziz ibn marwan's reign continued to be completed in the hisham ibn abdul malik's era. increasing tax was pursued by copts riots in egypt. the riots were fruitless for copts, as the taxes never cut, but it was another way; converting to islam and absorbing into islamic-arabic society in egypt.keywords: islamization of egypt, egyptian tax system, copts riots, conversion to islam.