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Ethiopia, the Unknown Land

A Cultural and Historical Guide

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

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Ethiopia, the Unknown Land

A Cultural and Historical Guide

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

Ethiopia, legendary home of the Queen of Sheba who travelled to Jerusalem to meet Solomon, resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant and battleground of the great emperors from Ezana in the 4th century AD to Haile Selassie in modern times, has inspired many travellers and writers since time immemorial. Recently few have journeyed there or, indeed, have any conception of the extraordinary cultural treasures that await visitors. Stuart Munro-Hay knows Ethiopia intimately, having lived and researched there over many years. He has produced the first truly comprehensive guide to the monuments of this beautiful, culture-steeped country, as well as offering a literary companion. Here is a guide to Ethiopia's architecture, geography, peoples, art and history, embracing all the major sites of the land over the ages. It will become the classic reference guide.

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I.B. Tauris

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1788313909

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The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

The True History of the Tablets of Moses

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

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The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

The True History of the Tablets of Moses

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

In a chapel in the old crenellated church of Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia is kept an object that emperors, patriarchs and priests have assured the world is the most important religious relic of all time: the tabota Seyon, Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of Zion. This Ark is alleged to be no other than the Ark that Moses had constructed at Sinai and which destroyed the walls of Jericho. It was brought into Jerusalem by King David and installed in a magnificent temple by King Solomon. Then, the story goes, it came to Ethiopia of its own choice with the half-Ethiopian, half-Jewish son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Are the legends true? Or is this story a monumental deception? Is there any real proof or is it the faith of a people alone that has created this Ark? From ancient texts to local stories, from the Bible to the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits, Stuart Munro-Hay traces the extraordinary legend of Ethiopia's Ark in what is a triumph of historical detective work. Munro-Hay scrutinises every mention of the Ark in Ethiopian records and tests every theory before he reaches his shocking conclusion. "The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant" promises to settle the mystery of the Ark of the Covenant for once and for all.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857716034

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9780857716033

Islam

An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

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Islam

An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims, mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200 illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great contemporary significance.

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431

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441165339

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9781441165336

Ethiopia Unveiled

Interaction Between Two Worlds

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

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Ethiopia Unveiled

Interaction Between Two Worlds

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

Ethiopia Unveiled explores some unusual and exotic aspects of an intriguing topic: Ethiopia ?s presentation to and reaction to, the outside world over a period of several hundred years. The lands concerned are chiefly European Mediterranean countries, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but also include Yemen, Egypt, and Palestine, where the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem was the goal of innumerable Ethiopian pilgrims. Some years ago, as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University at Berlin, lecturing on Ethiopian history, the author noticed how surprised the students were to hear of the sometimes quite vigorous interaction between European mediaeval powers and remote, but Christian, Ethiopia . Despite the incredible difficulties of communication ? even with closer neighbors like Egypt, Jerusalem or the Yemen transmission was far from easy ? there are letters and reports still preserved concerning Ethiopian relations not just with Egyptian sultans and patriarchs and Yemeni imams, but also with European kings and popes. The former mainly concern church matters or sometimes the Nile, though once the vague fantastic dream of converting an Ethiopian Christian king to Islam surfaced in Yemen. The European contacts are perhaps more surprising, and include accreditations of ambassadors, schemes for joint anti-Muslim military action, and even marriage proposals. In later times the association between the two very different worlds that Ethiopia and Europe represented increased, but at the same time understanding became obscured by the intermingling of wonderful legendary additions; for example, the queen of Sheba, Prester John, or the story of the blocking of the Nile to starve Muslim Egypt. All in all, the Ethiopians? relations with the outside world seemed to deserve a study on their own ? the genesis of this book.

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Tsehai Publishers

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159907009X

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9781599070094

Ethiopia

Judaism, Altars and Saints

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

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Ethiopia

Judaism, Altars and Saints

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

In Ethiopia: Judaism, Altars and Saints, Dr. Munro-Hay shares three intriguing aspects of Ethiopia's endlessly fascinating history. The first subject of enquiry is the claim that an ancient and profound Judaic influence underlies Ethiopian Christianity. The second theme concerns the tabot, the altar boards of the churches of Ethiopia. The final section is devoted to exploration of the legends concerning the foreign missionaries who were supposed to have come to the country in the fifth and sixth centuries, the so-called Nine Saints. The study of these three themes not only offers a glimpse into the riches of Ethiopia's literary and ecclesiastical tradition, but adds new perspectives to our interpretation of Ethiopia's enigmatic past.

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204

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1599070081

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9781599070087

Turbulent Passage

A Global History of the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Adas,Peter N. Stearns,Stuart B. Schwartz

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Turbulent Passage

A Global History of the Twentieth Century

By: Michael Adas,Peter N. Stearns,Stuart B. Schwartz

With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century. Turbulent Passage is a truly global text that looks at the historical antecedents of current issues, and challenges students to make connections and draw parallels between historical and contemporary events and trends. The text's narrative encourages students to think analytically and presents important overall arguments for students to grapple with, as opposed to simply stating the facts of history.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321097696

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9780321097699

Coinage of Arabia Felix

The Pre-Islamic Coinage of the Yemen

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

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Coinage of Arabia Felix

The Pre-Islamic Coinage of the Yemen

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

Mare Erythraeum is an occasional series, dealing with the ethnography and archaeology of the lands bordering the Red Sea and their links with the Indian ocean. This is the sixth volume in this series. The coinage of the South Arabian Peninsula has not been studied in detail since 1922, when G. F. Hill published his catalogue of the British Museum collection. This work is the sixth in this series, and follows on from previous editions which examined coinage from Aksum. South Arabia is an area of study which is of great interest in terms of the historical and cultural significance of the region. The coinage of the Yemen from Pre-Islamic times is an important factor contributing towards the study of the iconography and symbolism of the people of this period, and displays important elements of the continuity and disturbances in the Yemen at this time. Munro-Hay links this information to known historical and archaeological developments in the Yemen in terms of religious, political and cultural factors. Munro-Hay,carried out extensive work cataloguing a large number of coins from the site of Shabwa in Hadhramawt, as well as a preliminary survey of coins from Hajar Am-Dhaybiyya. This information, along with the collection of the National Museum at Aden and other various collections, revealed several new types of coin, and form the main body of work for this book. The coinage studied shows itself to be richer than previously thought, and although these new types of coin greatly improve our understanding of the coinage of Southern Arabia, this is still an area where new finds are constantly being made, such as coins of the royal series or from the copper or bronze 'bucranium' series. Because ofthis the numbering system used by Munro-Hay in this study takes into account the expectation of future finds, thereby making this a flexible catalogue of study even if circumstances in this field change radically.

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Archaeopress Archaeology

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8887235287

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9788887235289

The Ark of the Covenant

By: Roderick Grierson,Stuart C. Munro-Hay

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The Ark of the Covenant

By: Roderick Grierson,Stuart C. Munro-Hay

At the heart of the city of Aksum in Ethiopia stands a small chapel, whose entrance is constantly guarded. Ethiopians believe that this chapel contains the Ark of the Covenant; their religious epic The Glory of Kings gives an account of how Makeda, the Queen of Sheba had a son by Solomon and how it was this son who removed the Ark from Jerusalem because of the disobedience of the people of Israel.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297841432

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Ethiopia, the Unknown Land

Ethiopia, the Unknown Land

The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

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Islam

Ethiopia Unveiled

Ethiopia Unveiled

Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Turbulent Passage

Turbulent Passage

Coinage of Arabia Felix

Coinage of Arabia Felix

The Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant

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