Abd al-Masih Salib al-Mas'udi (1848–1935) was an Egyptian monk and author.

Biography 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.Atiya, Aziz S. The Coptic Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991.

Works In addition to his work, above, he wrote: Kītāb al-Khulaji al-Muqaddas, Cairo, 1903; Kītāb al-Tuḥfah al-Saniyyah, Cairo, 1925; Kītāb al-Durrah al-Nafisah fī Ḥisābāt al-Kanīsah, Cairo, 1926; Al-Tuḥfah al-Barāmūsiyyah fī Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā'id Hisāb Al-Abqaṭi lil-Kanīsah al-Qibṭiyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah, Cairo, 1925; Kītāb al-Karmah, Cairo, 1927; Kītāb al-Asrār , Cairo, 1926; Tuḥfat al-Sā'ilīn fī Dhikr Adyirat Ruhbān al-Miṣriyyīnn, Cairo, 1932.

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