Abd al-Masih Salib al-Masudi

ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Ṣalīb al-Masūʿdī was ordained a monk by his uncle, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kabīr, in 1874.

He served at the Paromeos Monastery at Wadi El Natrun and was summoned by Pope Cyril V of Alexandria to assist in the administration of the church in Cairo.

He learned Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic and became a prolific writer. His best known work is his interpretation of the Epact.

He died at the age of eighty-seven.^[1]

In addition to his work, above, he wrote:

• KÄ«tāb al-Khulaji al-Muqaddas, Cairo, 1903;
• KÄ«tāb al-Tuḥfah al-Saniyyah, Cairo, 1925;
• KÄ«tāb al-Durrah al-Nafisah fÄ« Ḥisābāt al-KanÄ«sah, Cairo, 1926;
• Al-Tuḥfah al-BarāmÅ«siyyah fÄ« Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā'id Hisāb Al-Abqaá¹­i lil-KanÄ«sah al-Qibá¹­iyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah, Cairo, 1925;
• KÄ«tāb al-Karmah, Cairo, 1927;
• KÄ«tāb al-Asrār , Cairo, 1926;
• Tuḥfat al-Sā'ilÄ«n fÄ« Dhikr Adyirat Ruhbān al-Miá¹£riyyÄ«nn, Cairo, 1932.