The First Step to Apostasy? (An Ethiopian Ruler’s Missive to the Sultan Baybars Re-interpreted)

A majority of the sources on medieval Ethiopia are written in the Gǝ‘ǝz language in the “genre” of history. However, some texts written in Arabic remain equally important. Among such texts the missive addressed by a ruler of Ethiopia to the Mamluk Sultan Baybars (known as al-Malik al-Ẓāhir) in AH 67...

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Main Author: Francuzov, Sergej Alekseevič 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Scrinium
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 367-374
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CG Christianity and Politics
KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages
KBL Near East and North Africa
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B the Mamluk Sultan; diplomatic ­correspondence between the Ethiopian kings and the Mamluks
B Arabic sources; Ethiopia
B Zagwe, Solomonids; Yǝkunno Amlak
B dynasties
B Ethiopia
B the first King of the Solomonids; Baybars
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