Pseudo-debate texts, which claim to record religious dialogues between prominent Christians and Muslims, quickly spread under Abbasid rule. Historically, while such debates did take place, most of the texts in circulations were factious. Still, these contentious narratives provide an invaluable window onto the popular apologetic and polemical strategies employed by each faith-community. Most debate texts hail from Syria and many have survived in Syriac and Arabic, but there is also a small dossier of analogous texts from Egypt, which have not been the subject of academic study. This paper surveys this literary corpus, which survives in Coptic fragments and two unedited Arabic manuscripts, and contextualizes it within the frameworks of Abbasid and Fatimid policies, as well as Arab Christian studies. The primary focus will be on the topics addressed and the stratagems employed in these debate texts and how they compare to normative apologetic texts, such as those of Abu Qurrah and Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa'. Untimely, these texts manifest yet another aspect of the complex socio-religious process by which Christians, Muslims, and Jews reinforced their confessional and communal identities under caliphal rule.