ISBN:
978-90-04-42385-5 (hardback)
,
978-90-04-42386-2 (e-book)
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 299 Seiten
,
Illustrationen (teils farbig)
Series Statement:
Open Jerusalem volume 4
Uniform Title:
Le _moine sur le toît
Keywords:
Israel Äthiopien
;
Diaspora
;
Kopte
;
Kirche
;
Äthiopisch Orthodoxe Kirche
;
Beziehungen, interreligiös
;
Geschichte
;
Jerusalem
Abstract:
Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements for the English edition -- List of figures -- Note on translation and dates -- Introduction : A Historical Emergency: the Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript -- 1. Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery -- 2. An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript -- 3. The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text -- 4. Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 -- 5. With Memory as His Only Weapon -- 6. The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation -- 7. The Ethiopians in a Global City -- Conclusion: The Keys to Power: the Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary -- Amharic text of Walda Madhen and English translation -- Appendix 1. German Version of the Ethiopian anonymous test of 1893 -- Appendix 2. Letter written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Eearl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852 -- Appendix 3. Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893 -- Appendix 4. Short chronology -- Sources and chronology -- Index of persons
Note:
"Originally published in French as Le moine sur le toit: histoire d'un manuscrit éthiopien trouvé à Jérusalem (1904). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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