44 articles in this issue
Editorial Team
Table of Contents
Alessandro Bausi
Editorial
Bibliographical abbreviations used in this volume
Getatchew Haile
It is clear that, due to the age of the manuscripts of the Abba Gärima Gospels and the condition in which they are preserved, some leaves of one Gospelmanuscript have been inadvertently rebound with another Gospel manuscript. My presentation follows Garim... see more
Fr. Maximous el-Antony, Jesper Blid, Aaron Michael Butts
This article presents a single fragmentary folio that was recently uncovered in excavations at the Monastery of St Antony (Egypt). This folio was discovered in a secondary deposit below the foundations of a church which was in all likelihood constructed i... see more
Mersha Alehegne
This paper presents oral narratives told about Abuna Gärima, one of the so called Nine Saints, and his evangelical mission in northern Ethiopia. The narratives presented in the paper discuss different issues: where and how did he write his Gospel, which i... see more
Anais Wion, Anne Damon-Guillot, Stéphanie Weisser
Musical instruments were used in the Christian realm of Ethiopia during the early modern period for proclamations, major religious celebrations, court ceremonies, and the movement of the king and his troops inside and outside of royal cities, as well as f... see more
Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, Thomas Rave
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XIX: 2014/2015
Alessandro Gori
Conference Report
Endris Mohammed Yesufe
The Muslim scholars of Wällo are known for composing panegyrics that are usually chanted on special occasions or gatherings like ?a?ra and Mawlid (festival to solemnize the birthday of the Prophet). The Ramsa is a very famous collection of poems made up o... see more
Sara Fani
The present study is based on the analysis of manuscript collections of two regions of Ethiopia in part collected during two field missions and in part already known. Gibe and Harär areas were chosen both for the interesting history of their Islamisation ... see more
The paper focuses on the text of šay? Hašim’s Fat? al-ra?mani, a famous work of the Arabic literature of Harär, analyzing its so far known manuscript tradition.
Minako Ishihara
This article deals with Sufism in Ethiopia, how people came to affiliate themselves to certain ?ufi orders and how the ?ariqa, or ?ufi order, underwent change in providing alternative ways for Muslims to follow their career under the present regime. The f... see more
Michele Petrone
The presence of the Tiganiyya in Ethiopia is well attested since the mission of Enrico Cerulli in early twentieth century.Since then the studies about the presence and diffusion of this order in Ethiopia have been based mainly on oral sources and fieldwor... see more
Paper delivered on the occasion of the presentation of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, jointly organized by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, ISMEO – Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Ori... see more
Martin Heide
A recently published review on the Testament of Abraham (as ed. by M. Heide) is raising important questions that deal with the adequate method of preparing critical editions of Oriental texts. Besides, the review has not a small number of misunderstanding... see more
Rainer Voigt
Oromo-Wörterbücher
Siegbert Uhlig awarded with the British Academy ‘Edward Ullendorff Medal’
Thomas Zitelmann
Obituary
Fr. José L. Bandres
Irma Taddia
Rainer Voigt, Saleh Mahmud Idris
Review article
Pierluigi Piovanelli
Review
Philip Booth
Hugo Lundhaug
Steven Kaplan
Massimo Villa
Susanne Hummel
Antonella Brita
Bairu Tafla
Stéphane Ancel
Ulrich Braukämper
Herbert S. Lewis
Alke Dohrmann
Marco Bassi
Magnus Treiber
Günther Schlee
Hiruie Ermias
Olga Kapeliuk
Maria Bulakh
Yvonne Treis
Solomon Gebreyes Beyene
Dissertation Abstract