IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 520: Frontiers and Connections in North-East Africa

Sponsor:	Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Organiser:	Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg
Moderator/Chair:	Verena Krebs, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Paper 520-a	A New Attempt to Define the Role of the Earliest Muslims in the Realms of al-Habash: Muslims as a Constitutional Element of the Christian Kingdom and Its International Networking (Language: English) Wolbert G. Smidt, Department of Anthropology Mekelle University Ethiopia / Institut für Orientalistik Indogermanistik Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Index terms: Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 520-b	The Itineraries of King Galāwdewos's Military Campaigns and the Frontiers of the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1540‒1559: As Recounted in His Royal Chronicle (Language: English) Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg Index terms: Administration, Language and Literature - Other, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	Medieval Ethiopia was a vibrant and influential kingdom, both regionally in the Horn of Africa and in the extended Mediterranean area. This sessions analyses the role of Ethiopia in international exchanges throughout the medieval period as well as offering an assessment of the changing borders of the kingdom during the turbulent 16th century.