The Sultanates of Medieval Ethiopia
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- Identifier
- 495
- Title
- The Sultanates of Medieval Ethiopia
- Author
- Amélie Chekroun, Bertrand Hirsch See all items with this value
- Date
- 4/2021 See all items with this value
- Type
- Journals See all items with this value
- Description
- Given its geographical situation across the Red Sea from the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf of Aden, it is perhaps not surprising that the Horn of Africa was exposed to an early and continuous presence of Islam during the Middle Ages. Indeed, it has long been known that Muslim communities and Islamic sultanates flourished in Ethiopia and bordering lands during the medieval centuries. However, despite a sizeable amount of Ethiopian Christian documents (in Gǝʿǝz) relating to their Muslim neighbors and valuable Arabic literary sources produced outside Ethiopia and, in some cases, emanating from Ethiopian communities themselves, the Islamic presence in Ethiopia difficult to apprehend. It is so because it has not attracted the same amount of scholarly investment as Ethiopian Christianity, so much so that epigraphic and archeological evidence have long remained scanty and only recently started to produce a significant corpus of material evidence, which now allows to revisit the history of Islamic penetration in Ethiopia and of Muslim-Christian relationships through centuries.
- Contributor
- Meftuh Shash A.
- Author Ethnicity
- Non-Harari
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