Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A C written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia treats all important terms of the history of ideas of this central region between Orient and Africa. After its completion the set will comprise five volumes - four text and one index volume with altogether approximately 4000 articles. The topics range from basic data over archaeology, ethnology and anthropology, history, the languages and literatures up to the art, religion and culture. This first volume combines about 1000 articles in the English language, written by approximately 250 authors with extents varying from a few lines to several pages. Approximately 150 maps and about the same number of illustrations round off this unique reference book.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica D Ha written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica He N written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following volume 1 (987 articles from letter A to letter C) and volume 2 (1061 articles from D to Ha) the present volume includes articles ranging alphabetically from He to N. The Encyclopaedia focuses on the cultural region consistingof Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti as well as parts of theSudan and Somalia. It additionally covers the relationshipsof the core zone with other regions, including Oriental andOccidental countries. The central thematic areas are history, languages, literatures, ethnology, religion, culture, societyand arts. While most of the articles gear towardshistory, many also cover recent political and economical developments.Biographic entries provide information on personalitieswho played an important role in cultural or sociallife, or who have contributed greatly to our knowledge of theregion. 275 authors from 40 countries have merged theirefforts to present known and innovative research results inover 1050 articles; illustrations and maps offer additional information. The use is facilitated by cross references as wellas comprehensive bibliographic references
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica A Reference Work on the Horn of Africa written by Alessandro Bausi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Y Z supplementa addenda et corrigenda maps index written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Aethiopica written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia for the Horn of Africa treats all important terms of the history of ideas of this central region between Orient and Africa. After its completion the set will comprise five volumes four text and one index volume with altogether approx. 4000 articles. The topics range from basic data over archaeology, ethnology and anthropology, history, the languages and lit-eratures up to the art, religion and culture.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages written by Ronny Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.
Download or read book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros written by Galawdewos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.
Download or read book Ethiopia written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETHIOPIA is a compendium on Ethiopia and Northeast Africa for travellers, students, businessmen, people interested in Africa, policymakers and organisations. In this book 85 specialists from 15 countries write about the land of our fossil ancestor `Lucy', about its rock-hewn churches and national parks, about the coexistence of Christians and Muslims, and about strange cultures, but also about contemporary developments and major challenges to the region. Across ten chapters they describe the land and people, its history, cultures, religions, society and politics, as well as recent issues and unique destinations, documented with tables, maps, further reading suggestions and photos.
Download or read book The Hatata Inquiries written by Zara Yaqob and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations of meaning and reason are deeply considered works of rhetoric. They advocate for women’s rights and rail against slavery. They offer ontological proofs for God and question biblical commands while delighting in the language of Psalms. They advise on right living. They put reason above belief, desire above asceticism, love above sectarianism, and the natural world above the human. They explore the nature of being as well as the nature of knowledge, the human, ethics, and the human relation with the divine. They are remarkable examples of something many assume doesn’t exist: early written African thought. This accessible English translation of the Hatata Inquiries, along with extensive footnotes documenting the cultural and historical context and the work’s many textual allusions, enables all to read it and scholars to teach with it. The Hatata Inquiries are essential to understanding the global history of philosophy, being among the early works of rational philosophy. The book includes a translation by Ralph Lee with Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher of the Hatata Zara Yaqob and the Hatata Walda Heywat. The appendices by Jeremy R. Brown provide information on the scribal interventions in and the differences between the manuscripts of the two Hatatas. The book also includes a map, chronology, summary of the translation principles, and a discussion of the authorship debate about the Hatata Inquiries.
Download or read book Abyssinia s Samuel Johnson written by Wendy Laura Belcher and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.
Download or read book Sense and Sensibility in Islam written by Abdul Elah Nazer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam, more than 1400 years after its revival by Prophet Muhammad is still misunderstood today. The traditional Islam practised today, is not the Islam of the Prophets, Abraham and Muhammad. It has been acutely syncretized with alien concepts of Paganism, Zoroastrian and Judeo-Christian. This book will attempt to explain some of the misunderstood verses using linguistics within its various contexts. Resorting to reason, Sense and Sensibility in Islam “sieves” out words and expressions of literalism from historicity. The resulting exegesis closely mirrors the message of the Quran as understood by the Pagan, Persian and the Judeo-Christian weltanschauung of the days of the Prophet Muhammad. The use of logic and context of the message is paramount. Arabic lexicons are frequently consulted and ancient metaphors revealed. Myths, legends, dogmas, miracles, superstitions, and historicity will be examined in the light of modern disciplines of archaeology and it sub-discipline of epigraphy, anthropology, cosmology and other scientifi c disciplines in deciphering and “teasing” out the message to its “original” rational intent. Contrary to popular perception, Islam is not a religion. It is in fact opposed to it, states Nazer. Traditional Islam today is a syncretic medley of traditions from Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian traditions. While Nazer attempts to separate Original Islam from this syncretism, he asks various pertinent questions on the origins of Prophet Muhammad; the rituals perpetuated in the name of Islam by the Pagan Meccans of the Omayyad Period and later Abbasside Zoroastrian Persians and question their authenticity through linguistics, common sense and unveiled metaphors from Arabic Lexicons. Like separating wheat from chaff, Nazer “teases” out ancient words and metaphors from commonly translated rituals in today’s Islam. What was the essence of the ancient faith, he asks? Did Abraham travel all the way to Mecca to found a faith on the ritual of prayers, or did he found a system of socio-economic reforms, which Muhammad followed, for later generations? Did Abraham build the Kaaba in Mecca? Did Mecca exist during Abraham’s time? What do the words Kaaba and Bakkah really mean? Was Bakkah the Mecca of today, or was it the Baca or Bekah of the Judaic religion? Nazer explains these words through linguistics from context and the answer may surprise many, including the followers of traditional Islam today. Finally, Sense and Sensibility in Islam examines whether Islam is compatible with Western democracy. Is Islam a democracy or an autocracy, allied to patristic bondage as practiced in Iran and Saudi Arabia? He comes to the conclusions that Islam is a set of social reforms that lead to peace, security and human rights for all.
Download or read book Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship written by Albert Gerhards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship" presents the reworked results of the discussions at an interdisciplinary symposium held in Aachen, Germany, on recent trends in the study of Jewish and Christian liturgies. It introduces diverse subjects pertaining to its topic an shows their interrelationship.
