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The Fetha Negest (Ge'ez: ፍትሐ ነገሥት, romanized: fətḥa nägäśt, lit. 'Justice of the Kings') is a theocratic legal code compiled around 1240 by the Coptic Egyptian Christian writer Abu'l-Fada'il ibn al-Assal in Arabic. It was later translated into Ge'ez in Ethiopia in the 15th century and expanded upon with numerous local laws.
Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome.He is known as a Hebraist and for many translations.. He learned semitic languages from Pius Zingerle and Father Vincenti, and taught himself Ge'ez.
This page was recently moved from Fetha Negest to Fetha Nagast with the assertion that it is the "correct" name. Anyone with some familiarity of Ge'ez, however, knows that the correct name is ፍትሐ ነገሥት which can be transliterated in a variety of ways, using a variety of methods.
Additional information on the Kebra Nagast was included by the Jesuit priest Manuel de Almeida in his Historia de Etiopía. Almeida was sent out as a missionary to Ethiopia, and had abundant opportunity to learn about the Kebra Nagast at first hand, owing to his excellent command of the language. His manuscript is a valuable work.
Until the adoption of the first of these constitutions, the concepts of Ethiopian government had been codified in the Kebra Nagast (which presented the concept that the legitimacy of the Emperor of Ethiopia was based on its asserted descent from king Solomon of ancient Israel), and the Fetha Nagast (a legal code used in Ethiopia at least as ...
Also of monumental importance was the appearance of the Ge'ez translation of the Fetha Negest ("Laws of the Kings"), thought to have been made around 1450, and ascribed to one Petros Abda Sayd — that was later to function as the supreme Law for Ethiopia, until it was replaced by a modern Constitution in 1931.
The 1931 Constitution of Ethiopia was the first modern constitution of the Ethiopian Empire, intended to officially replace the Fetha Nagast, which had been the supreme law since the Middle Ages. It was promulgated in "an impressive ceremony" held 16 July 1931 in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie , who had long desired to proclaim one for ...
Nguyễn Thành (chữ Hán: 阮誠; 1863–1911), courtesy name Nam Thạnh, later changed to Tiểu La (小羅) was a Vietnamese scholar-gentry anti-colonial revolutionary activist who advocated independence from French colonial rule.