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Eldad's story begins with him leaving the land "on the other side of the river of Kush." [2] Eldad traveled with a man of the tribe of Asher.A great storm wrecked the boat, but God prepared a box for him and his companion, on which they floated until thrown ashore among a cannibal Ethiopian tribe called Romrom.
A letter of Abba 'Enbaqom (or "Habakkuk") to Imam Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim, entitled Anqasa Amin ("Gate of the Faith"), giving his reasons for abandoning Islam, although probably first written in Arabic and later rewritten in an expanded Ge'ez version around 1532, is considered one of the classics of later Ge'ez literature.
The Futūḥ Al-Ḥabaša ("The Conquest of Ethiopia"): Ahmad's invasion of Abyssinia is described in detail in this book, written in Arabic by Ahmad's follower Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir. In its current version, it is incomplete, covering the story only to 1537, narrating the Imam's raids on the islands of Lake Tana.
Medieval map of Ethiopia, including the ancient lost city of Barara, which is located in modern-day Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa; [1] the emergence of Ethiopian civilization dates back thousands of years.
"The confrontation between Italy and Ethiopia at Adwa was a fundamental turning point in Ethiopian history," writes Henze. [60] On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde observed that "few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia to the attention of the world as has the victory at Adwa". [61]
Al-A'sha (Arabic: ٱلْأَعْشَىٰ) or Maymun Ibn Qays Al-A'sha (d.c. 570– 625) was an Arabic Jahiliyyah poet from Al-Yamama, Arabia. He claims to receive inspiration from a jinni called Misḥal. [1] He traveled through Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia and Ethiopia.
The Kingdom of Jimma (Oromo: Mootummaa Jimmaa) was an Oromo Muslim kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 18th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidamo Kingdom of Janjero, and was separated from the Kingdom of Kaffa to the south by the Gojeb River.
Drinking bowl with scenes from the Aethiopis epic, Attic, c. 540 BC. The Aithiopis (/ iː ˈ θ aɪ ə p ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Αἰθιοπίς, romanized: Aithiopís), also spelled Aethiopis, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature.