Another sign of decline was Arabic texts circulating among the monks but written in Coptic characters, as they could not still read the Arabic script.

• 这种衰落的另一个标志就是，阿拉伯语在僧侣中间流传，但它们是用科普特字母写成，因为这些僧侣仍然不会读阿拉伯语。