History

Historical Resources on Africa, Ethiopia, Its Diaspora & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Today’s Ethiopia is Ethiopia of the Holy Scriptures, History and Antiquity – Resolution of the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (September 1997)

The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians – Fikre Tolossa

Book Review: The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians – De Birhan Media (August 2012)

The Beta Israel: Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century – Steven B. Kaplan

The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to I920 – James Quirin

We, the Black Jews – Yosef A. A. ben Jochannan

Origin of the Yoruba and ‘The Lost Tribes of Israel’ – Dierk Lange

From Babylon to Timbuktu – Rudolph R. Windsor

The Contribution of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church to the Ethiopian Civilization – Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia – Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia II – Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia III – Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Early Christianity in Contexts – ed. William Tabbernee

Patriotism and Piety in Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics on Saint Gregory – trans. Abraham Terian

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History – John Binns

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Orthodox Church – Ephraim Isaac

The Ethiopian Tewahedo Church: An Integrally African Church – Archbishop Yesehaq

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church: Faith, Order of Worship and Ecumenical Relations (citation)

The Establishment of the Ethiopian Church

The Introduction of Christianity

The Expansion & Consolidation of Christianity C. 350 – 650 A.D.

A Period of Conflict C. 700 – 1200 A.D.

Revival of the Church C. 1200 – 1526 A.D.

Persecution & Religious Controversies

The Ethiopian Church History: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church vs. the Roman Catholic Church – Kesis Endale Abebe

The Period of Reorganization

The Hierarchy

Worship in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Literature & Art

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church School System

Additional Resources

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and its Pre-Rabbinic Judaic Roots – Tedla Melaku (academia.edu)

Is the Church of Ethiopia a Judiac Church? – Kirsten Stoffregen Pedersen

The Archaeology of Christianity in Africa – Niall Finneran

The Archaeology of Ethiopia – Niall Finneran

Alexandria: A City and Myth – Niall Finneran

A Tale of Five Cities: A History of the Five Patriarchal Cities of the Early Church – Jay E. Thompson

Mountain Constantines: The Christianization of Aksum and Iberia – Christopher Haas

Lalibela and Yimrehane Kirstos: The Living Witness of Zagwe Dynasty – Deacon Mengistu Gobezie

The History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Part 1) – Luke Melaku

The History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Part 2 & 3) – Luke Melaku

Chapter 15: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Christine Chaillot, in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions – ed. Elias Kifon Bongmba

Beyond Byzantium: The Non-Chalcedonian Churches – Niall Finneran, in A Companion to Byzantium – ed. Liz James

The Red Sea during the ‘Long’ Late Antiquity, AD 500-1000 – Timothy Power (academia.edu)

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate, AD 500-1000 – Timothy Power

Ethiopia and the Red Sea – Mordechai Abir

Website dedicated to Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie, author of Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270

Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 – Sergew Hable Selassie

Book Review of Merse’a Hazen Wolde Qirqos’ Yahayagnaw Kifil Zemen Mebacha: Yezemen Tarik Tizitaye Kayhutena Kesemhaut, 1896-1922 – Ayele Bekerie

Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite Relations with Himyar in the Sixth Century C.E., PhD Thesis (2011) – George Hatke (abstract)

Ethiopia: Judaism, Altars and Saints – Stuart Munro Hay

The Process of Caste Formation in Ethiopia: A Study of the Beta Israel (Felasha), 1270-1868 – James Quirin

Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia – Paul B. Henze

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian – ed. Alessandro Bausi

Political Theory and Ideology in the Kebra Nagast: Old Testament Judaism, Roman-Byzantine Politics and Ethiopian Orthodoxy – Benjamin Hendrickx (abstract)

The Ascent of Christian Law: Patristic and Byzantine Formulations of a New Civilization – John Anthony McGuckin

The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire – J. M. Hussey, Andrew Louth

Byzantium and the Arabs series – Irfan Shahid

The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740 – John Haldon

Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World – Youval Rotman and Jane Marie Todd

Athanasius of Alexandria and ‘The Kingdom of the Desert’ in his Works – Eirini Artemi (academia.edu)

Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts – Otto F. Meinardus

Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt – ed. Gawdat Gabra

Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity – Otto F. A. Meinardus

The Scrolls of Bishop Timotheos – J. M. Plumley

The Reign of God Has Come: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam – Stephen Shoemaker (academia.edu)

Seeing Eye to Eye: Islamic Universalism in the Roman and Byzantine Worlds, 7th to 10th Centuries, PhD Thesis (2010) – Olof Heilo

The Development of the Coptic Perceptions of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt, MA Thesis (2012) – Walid Mohamed Asfour

Coptic Conversion and the Islamization of Egypt – Shaun O’Sullivan

From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt – Maged S.A. Mikhail

Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt – Febe Armanios

The Perception and Presentation of the Arab Conquest in Syriac Historiography – Jan Van Ginkel (academia.edu)

Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia – Gawdat Gabra

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Vol. 1: Akhmim and Sohag – eds. Gawdat Gabra & Hany Takla

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Vol. 2: Nag Hammadi-Essa – eds. Gawdat Gabra & Hany Takla

The Monastic Holy Man and the Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia – Steven Kaplan

Byzantium and Ethiopian Monasticism – Vaclav Jezek

Ethiopian Monasticism – Krzysztof Piotr Blazewicz

Ethiopian Monasticism, HMML Lectures, Paper 5 – Getachew Haile (abstract)

Founded by, Dedicated to, and Fighting About the Holy Savior: Schism in Wald ba, a Microcosm of Factionalism in the Ethiopian Church – Kindeneh E. Mihretie (academia.edu)

The Christianization and the Shaping of Ethiopian Society: From the Nine Saints to the Eight Monk Delegation at the [Roman Catholic) Ecumenical Council of Florence – Mario Alexis Portella (academia.edu)

Ethiopian and Eritrean Monasticism – Mario Alexis Portella (Roman Catholic Perspective)

Central Ethiopian Monasticism, 1974-1991: The Survival of an Ancient Institution in a Changing World, PhD Thesis – Joachim Gregor Persoon (abstract)

Traditional Teaching in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Christine Chaillot

Traditional Ethiopian Church School – Alaka Imbakom Kalewold

Kings and Saints: Founders of Dynasties, Monasteries and Churches in Christian Ethiopia – Alessandro Bausi (academia.edu)

Ezanas and Caleb, the Pair of Saintly Kings – Wolfgang Hahn, Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies ed. Siegbert Uhlig

The Conversion of King Caleb and the Religious and Political Dynamics of Sixth-Century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia – Ralph Lee, in An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity – eds. Peter Sarris, Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth

The Chronicle of the Emperor Zara Yaqob (1434-1468) – Richard Pankhurst

Abba Estifanos (Hadege Anbesa), 1380 to 1450, Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Stephanite Movement) – Dictionary of African Christian Biography

The History of the First Estifanosite Monks – Getachew Haile

The Ge’ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende – ed. Getachew Haile

The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian Church – Getachew Haile

Te-Abba Bahriy Dirsetoch Oromochin Kemimeleketu Leloch Senedoch Gara (The Works of Abba Bahriy and Other Documents) – Gatachew Haile (Amharic & English introduction)

Orthodox Faith and Political Legitimization of a ‘Solomonid’ Dynasty of Rulers in the Ethiopic Kebra Nagast: A Reappraisal – Pierluigi Piovanelli (academia.edu)

Pious Kings and Right-Believing Queens – Fr. James Thornton

Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea – James De Lorenzi

Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism and the Decentering of Ethiopia – Messay Kebede (abstract)

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam – G. W. Bowersock

The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles – ed. Richard Pankhurst

The Royal Chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 – ed. Herbert Weld Blundell

Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527 – Taddesse Tamrat

Priests & Politicians: Protestant & Catholic Missions in Orthodox Ethiopia – Donald Crummey

Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola’s Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents – Matteo Salvadore

Muslim Partners, Catholic Foes: The Selective Isolation of Fasiladas’s Ethiopia – Matteo Salvadore (academia.edu)

The Missionary Strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1555-1632) – Leonardo Cohen

Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632 – Andreu Martinez D’Alos-Moner

Europe and Ethiopia’s Isolation: The Ethio-Jesuit Paradigm Revised (16th-17th century) – Andreu Martinez D’Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Paul and the Other: The Portuguese Debate on the Circumcision of the Europeans – Andreu Martinez D’Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Christian Ethiopia: The Temptation of an African Polity – Andreu Martinez D’Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Sisters Debating the Jesuits: The Role of African Women in Defeating Portuguese Proto-Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century Abyssinia – Wendy Laura Belcher (academia.edu)

Selected Latin Letters of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1609-1641) – ed. Wendy Laura Belcher (forthcoming)

Ethiopia and the Missions: Historical and Anthropological Insights – eds. Verena Boll, Stephen Kaplan, Andreu Martinez d’Alos-Moner

A Story in Stones: Portugal’s Influence on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia, 1493-1634 – John Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee

Discourse Against Catholic Doctrine in Tegray (Ethiopia): A Nineteenth Century Text – Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Legitimation Strategies in the Encounters between Missionary and Indigenous Christianity: Examining German Hermannsburg Mission’s Narratives on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1924-1927) – Stanislau Paulau (academia.edu)

The Chronicle of King Susenyos trans. Alemu Haile: Book Review – Sisay Sahile Beyene (academia.edu)

Monks and Monarchs: Christological Controversy of the Ethiopian Church and Its Impact on the State (1632-1878), PhD Thesis, 2011 – Kindeneh Endeg Mihretie (abstract)

The Rise and Fall of the Solomonic Dynasty – Gizachew Tiruneh

The Kebra Nagast: The Glory of the Kings

The Kebra Nagast: New Translation – ed. Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner (forthcoming)

The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings

The Black Queen of Sheba: A Global History of an African Idea – Wendy Laura Belcher (forthcoming)

An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800 – Richard Pankhurst

Economic History of Ethiopia (1800-1935) – Richard Pankhurst

Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia – Donald Crummey

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300-1700 – Mohammed Hassen

Eastern Christian Apocalyptic in the Early Muslim Period: Pseudo-Methodius and Pseudo-Athanasius (PhD Thesis) – Francisco Javier Martinez

The Legend of Sergius Bahira: Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam – Barbara Roggema

The Conquest of Abyssinia – Futuh Al-Habasa

The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia – G. W. B. Huntingford

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam – ed. Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark N. Swanson and David Thomas

Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism – Patrick Desplat

The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700 – 1700: An Anthology of Sources – eds. Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger

Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 – trans. Samuel Noble, Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko

Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam – Robert G. Hoyland

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: The Arab Period in Armnyah Seventh to Eleventh Centuries, Volume 1 – Seta Dadoyan

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World, Volume 2 – Seta Dadoyan

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World, Volume 3 – Seta Dadoyan

Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 – Fatma Muge Gocek

The Middle East – Bernard Lewis

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East – Bernard Lewis

The End of Modern History in the Middle East – Bernard Lewis

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam – Chouki El Hamel

The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402 – 1555 – Matteo Salvadore

The Goggam Chronicle – Girma Getahun

The Golden Age of the Moors – Ivan Van Sertima

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 – John Thornton

Slavery, Family amd Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic – S. D. Smith

Slavery and the British Empire – Kenneth Morgan

Abolition! The Struggle to Abolish Slavery in the British Colonies – Richard S. Reddie

The Queen’s Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I and the Trafficking in Human Souls – Nick Hazlewood

An Anglican British World: The Church of England and the Expansion of the Settler Empire, c. 1790-1860 – Joseph Hardwick

A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada – Eric Taylor Woods

Themes in African-Guyanese History – eds. Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose, David A. Granger

Ethiopian Emperors and Slavery – Hanibal Goitam, Library of Congress

Slavery and French and Haitian Revolutionists – Anna Julia Cooper

The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays – eds. Martin L. Kilson, Robert I. Rotberg

In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy – Alvin O. Thompson

The Fetha Nagast and its Ecclesiology – Negussie Andre Domnic (Roman Catholic Perspective)

The Survival of Ethiopian Independence – Sven Rubenson

Islam in Ethiopia – J. S. Trimingham

Beleaguered Muslim Fortresses and Ethiopian Imperial Expansion from the 13th to the 16th Century, MA Thesis (2008) – Travis J. Owens

Ethiopia – The Era of the Princes: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-unification of the Christian Empire 1769-1955 – Mordechai Abir

Servants of Allah: African-Muslims Enslaved in the Americas – Sylviane A. Diouf

Imperial Legitmacy and the Creation of Neo-Solomonic Ideology in 19th Century Ethiopia – Donald Crummey

Yohannes IV of Ethiopia: A Political Biography – Zewede Gabre-Sellassie

Re-imagining Empire: Ethiopian Political Culture under Yohannis IV (1872-89), PhD Thesis – Izabela Orlowska (academia.edu)

Ras Alula and the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography, Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1875-1897 – Haggai Erlich

The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia’s Historic Victory against European Colonialism – eds. Paulos Milkias and Getachew Metaferia

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society – Donald N. Levine

Early Twentieth Century Theological Controversies in Ethiopia: The Letter of the Coptic Metropolitan Petros of 1904 – Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Legacy of Bitterness: Ethiopia and Fascist Italy, 1934-91 – Alberto Sbacchi

The Massacre of Debre Libanos Ethiopia 1937 – Ian Campbell

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame – Ian Campbell

Rodolfo Graziani: A War Criminal Who Escaped Justice – Kidane Alemayehu

Rodolfo Graziani: A Fascist Hero and the Butcher of Africa – Ghelawdewos Araia

Forgotten Voices of the Italo-Abyssinian War 1935-41 – Andrew Hilton

Intervening in Abyssinia – C.L.R. James

The Fascist Invasion of Ethiopia and the Papacy – Rev. Dr. Mikre Sellassie G. Ammanuel

Church and Missions in Ethiopia During the Italian Occupation – Rev. Dr. Mikre Sellassie G. Ammanuel

Slavery and the League of Nations: Ethiopia as a Civilised Nation – Jean Allain

Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I, 1918-1967, especially Chapter XV – Culture, pp. 613 & Chapter XVI – Religion, pp. 625-643

A Glimpse of Greatness: Haile Selassie I – The Person – Abebe Ambatchew

Passion-Bearers – Orthodox Wiki

South Africa – Land of Martyrs – Abuna Yesehaq

Apartheid, 1948-1994 – Saul Dubow

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History – George M. Fredrickson

Precolonial Black Africa – Cheikh Anta Diop

A History of Pan-African Revolt – C. L. R. James

Bond Without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and New World Black Relations, 1896-1991 – Fikru Gebrekidan

Ethiopia Stretches Forth Across the Atlantic: African-American Anticolonialism during the Interwar Period – John Munro

Ethiopia is Now: J. A. Rogers and the Rhetoric of Black Anti-colonialism during the Great Depression – Aric Putnam

The Sons of Sheba’s Race: African-Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1941 – William R. Scott

In Recognition of the Abyssinian General – Robbie Shilliam

Intervention and Colonial Modernity: Decolonising the Italy/Ethiopia Conflict Through Psalms 68:31 – Robbie Shilliam

The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of American’s Attitudes Tward Africa – Theodore Vestal

Black Experience and the Empire – eds. Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition – eds. Bridget Brereton, Kevin A. Yelvington

Africa’s World War – Gerard Prunier

The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia – eds. Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Katherina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja

Ethiopia: Power and Protest – Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century – Gebru Tareke

Class and Revolution in Ethiopia – John Markakis and Nega Ayele

Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia – John Young

Ethiopia: The Political Economy of Transition – Ghelawdewos Araia

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia – Asfa-Wossen Asserate

Haile Selassie’s Government (1930-1974) – Christopher Clapham

The Dying Lion: Feudalism and Modernization in Ethiopia – Patrick Gilkes

Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia – Paulos Milkias

The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 – Bahru Zewde

Addis Ababa University in the Shadow of the Derg, 1974-1991 – Randi Ronning Balsvik

The Orthodox Church and the State in the Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-84 – Haile Larebo

Christians in Marxist Ethiopia – Mikael Doulos

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 – Messay Kebede

Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution – Messay Kebede

To Kill a Generation: The Red Terror in Ethiopia – Babile Tola

From Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist Countries – ed. Paul Hollander

The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation: Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia – Semahagn Gashu Abebe

Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia: The Growth and Persecution of the Mekane Yesus Church, 1974-1985 – Oyvind M. Eide

Witness and Discipleship: Leadership of the Church in Multi-Ethnic Ethiopia in a Time of Revolution: The Essential Writings of Gudina Tumsa, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (1929-1979)

Gudina Tumsa, 1929 to 1979, Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, The Voice of an Ethiopian Prophet – Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Christianity and Ethnic Tension: Lessons from Gudina Tumsa – Nebeyou Alemu (academia.edu)

Black Ethiopia: A Glimpse into African Diplomacy, 1956-1991 – Belete Belachew Yihun

Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia: Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi – eds. Gerald Prunier and Eloi Ficquet

Ethnic Politics in Ethiopia and the Church – Yoseph Shibeshi

Ethiopia: Competing Ethnic Nationalisms and the Quest for Democracy, 1960-2000 – Merera Gudina

The Invention of Ethnic Politics – Messay Kebede

The Politics of Metanoia: Towards a Post-Nationalistic Political Theology in Ethiopia – Theodros Assefa Teklu

The Paradox of Africa’s Poverty: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions – The Case of Ethiopia – Tirfe Mammo

Arrested Development in Ethiopia: Essays on Underdevelopment, Democracy and Self-Determination – eds. Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen

Church and State in the Orthodox World: From the Byzantine ‘Symphonia’ and Nationalized Orthodoxy to the Need of Witnessing the Word of God in a Pluralistic Society – Pantelis Kalaitzidis (academia.edu)

Syriac Writers on Muslims and the Religious Challenge of Islam – Sidney H. Griffith

Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World – Michael Penn

When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam – Michael Penn

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Moslems in the World of Islam – Sidney Griffith

Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Intefaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition – Yohanan Friedmann

Arabicization and Islamization: Eastern Christianity and the Appeal of Islam, 600-1500 – ed. David Thomas

The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam – Bat Ye’or

The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude – 7th-20th Century – Bat Ye’or

The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom – Mark Durie

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam – eds. Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark N. Swanson and David Thomas

Slavery, the State and Islam – Mohammed Ennaji

Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume 1 – Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement – John Ralph Willis

Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora – Ronald Segal

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean – eds. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno

Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide – Vicken Cheterian

Islamism in the Horn of Africa – Terje Ostebo

Radical Islam in East Africa – Angel Rabasa

Islamic Fundamentalism in East Africa: Ethiopia in Focus – Taye Bekalu Atnafu

Islamic Fundamentalism in Ethiopia – Ephrem Eshete (Amharic)

Islamic Fundamentalism in Ethiopia – Ephrem Eshete (Book Reviews)

The Conversion from Fanatic Islam to Christianity – Nahed Mahemud Mutwali (Amharic)

Muslim Religious Leaders on Ethiopian TV (August 2012) – Tecola W. Hagos

The ISIS Factor: What Islamic Jihad Means for Ethiopia and the Rest of Africa (September 2014) – Ghelawdewos Araia

Against Wahabism? Islamic Reform, Ambivalence and Sentiments of Loss in Harar – Patrick Desplat (academia.edu)

Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S, – Saudi Connection – Meda Benjamin

Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency – Virginia Comolli

Ethiopia: Democracy, Devolution of Power & the Developmental State – Ghelawdewos Araia

Religious Freedom and the Political Order: The Ethiopian ‘Secular State’ and the Containment of Muslim Identity Politics – Jon Abbink

Religious Tolerance, Tensions between Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Gondar Town, North West Ethiopia – Haileyesus Muluken

Addis Ababa Public Space: An Arena for Religious Rivalry – Dr. Kindeneh Endeg

Ethiopia: Governing the Faithful, Crisis Group Africa Briefing, No. 177 (February 22, 2016) – International Crisis Group

Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery (Ethiopia) – Prof. Martin Patt

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide – Bat Ye’or

Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Ethiopia: The Messages of Religions – Haggai Erlich

The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt and the Nile – Haggai Erlich

Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan – Haggai Erlich

Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity and Politics Entwined – Haggai Erlich

Islam in Black America – Edward E. Curtis

Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority – Zareena Grewal

The Planting of the Tabot on European Soil: The Trajectory of Ethiopian Orthodox Involvement with the European Continent (abstract) – Joachim Persoon

The Centralization Process of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: An Ecclesiastical History of Ethiopia During the 20th Century – Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Territories, Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions and Centralization Process: The Improvement of the Ethiopian Patriarchate Authority (1972-1983) – Stephane Ancel

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Diaspora: Expansion in the Midst of Politics, Religion and Schism – Walle Engedayehu (opinion of the author)

‘Neutral’ Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches (EOTCs) in the Diaspora: Is it not High Time to Take a Principled Stand? – Walle Engedayehu (opinion of the author)

Ethiopia’s Foreign Relations, Then and Now! (November 21, 2013) – Fisseha Tadesse Feleke

The EOTC Patriarchate – A Cause for Division (November 2012) – Teklu Abate

The EOTC at a Crossroads (November 2012) – Teklu Abate

EOTC Synod Renewed Its Failure – Teklu Abate

Towards a Fuller Vision: My Life & the Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Brahana Selassie

Wade in the River: The Story of African Christian Faith – Fr. Paisius Altschul

An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African-American Experience – ed. Fr. Paisius Altschul

What Happened to the Original Christian Unity in Ethiopia? Towards the Restoriation of our Original Unity in Christ – Petros S. Berga (Roman Catholic)

The Rebirth of African Orthodoxy: Return to Foundations – Thomas C. Oden

Bibliography on Christianity in Ethiopia, African Studies Center (2003) – J. Abbink

God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801-1908 – Hilary M. Carey

Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America – Kenneth Morgan

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya – Caroline Elkins

Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Atebellum South – Albert J. Raboteau

The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity and Globalization – Toyin Falola

North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes – Harvey Amani Whitfield

Canada’s Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage – Marcel Trudel

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal – Afua Cooper

Capitalism and Slavery – Eric Williams

Sugar, Slavery and Society – ed. Bernard Moitt

American Catholics and Slavery, 1789 – 1866 – Kenneth J. Zanca

African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy and Freedom – Sylvester A. Johnson

Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic World – John W. Catron

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II – Douglas A. Blackmon

Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land – Graham Reynolds

Viola Desmond’s Canada – Teaching Guide

Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond’s Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946 – Constance Backhouse

Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community – Donald H. Clairmont and Dennis William Magill

This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in Canada and the United States – Andrew Woolford

Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow – Adele Oltman

A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America – Elinor Langer

Cultural Power, Resistance and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900 – Brian Moore

Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924 – Juanita De Barros

Cross and Crown in Barbados: Caribbean Political Religion in the Late 19th Century – Kortright Davis

Jamaica: Debt and Poverty – Claremont Kirton

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion – ed. Paul Sutton

Never Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered in Arkansas – Black Main Street

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South – W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 – Amy Louise Wood

Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Well’s Interrogation of American Terror – Angela D. Sims

African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era – Christopher Waldrep

Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror – Angela Sims

The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent’s Settlements and Beyond – eds. Boulou Ebanda de B’beri, Nina Reid-Maroney and Handel Kashope Wright

A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 – John S. Malloy

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America – Manning Marable

Race, War and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I – Mark Ellis

Race and Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 – Penny Von Eschen

An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival – Jamie C. Miller

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present – Keith Breckenridge

Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 – Kenneth O’Reilly

The Assassination of Fred Hampton – Jeffrey Haas

An Illusive Independence: Neocolonial Intervention in the Caribbean – Kevin Edmonds (academia.edu)

From Slavery to Mass Incarceration – Loic Wacquant

Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration – Devah Pager

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander

Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary – Dennis Childs

Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader – Kevin Bales

Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa – eds. Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran

Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live AID – Peter Gill

Unheard Voices: Drought, Famine and God in Ethiopian Oral Poetry – Fekade Azeze

People on the Edge in the Horn – Gaim Kibreab

Land Deals in Africa: Ethiopia – Oakland Institute

Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab – ed. Alexander Reid Ross

Land Grabbing: Journeys In The New Colonialism – Stefano Liberti

The Betrayal of Africa – Gerald Caplan

Two Revolutions Behind: Is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church an Obstacle or Catalyst for Social Development? – J. A. Loubser

The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000: Patterns of Migration, Survival and Adjustment – Solomon Addis Getahun

Ethiopians in the Diaspora and Their Spirituality: The Influence of the Orthodox Church on Its Faithful – Moses Haregewoyn

Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora – Atsuko Matsuoka

The Black Jacobians: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution – C. L. R. James

Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution – Laurent Dubois

Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 – Brenda Gayle Plummer

The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Goverance – eds. Rita Kiki Edouzie and Keith Gottschalk

Introduction: The Causes and Costs of War in Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the ‘War on Terror’ – Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, in The Roots of African Conflicts – eds. Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Decision in Africa: Sources of Current Conflict – Alphaeus Hunton

Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba – Emmanuel Gerald, Bruce Kuklick

The Intellectual and Political Legacies of Kwame Nkrumah – Ama Biney

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France’s Role in the Rwandan Genocide – Andrew Wallis

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa – Robin Philpot

Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe – Gerard Prunier

A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide – Linda Melvern

Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda – Timothy Longman

Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide – Gerard Prunier

Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa – Maximilian C. Forte

Garvey, Garveyism and the Antinomies of Black Redemption – C. Boyd James

The Age of Garvey – Adam Ewing

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King – William F. Pepper

Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to their Historical, Cultural and Sacred Traditions (esp. Ch. 14: The Rastafari Chant) – Nathaniel Samuel Murrell

Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land – Erin C. MacLeod

Protest and Mysticism: The Rastafari Cult of Jamaica – Sheila Kitzinger (abstract)

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and the Challenges of Modernity – Stephane Ancel and Eloi Ficquet, in Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia – eds. Gerard Prunier and Eloi Ficquet

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church – Stephane Ancel, Giulia Bonacci and Joachim Persoon (academia.edu)

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea – Mitchell Duneier

The Twentieth Century: A People’s History – Howard Zinn

Christianity and the Roots of Human Dignity in Late Antiquity – Kyle Harper, in Christianity and Freedom, Volume 1: Historical Perspectives – eds. Timothy Samual Shah and Allen D. Hertzke (academia.edu)

Christianity and Freedom, Volume 1: Historical Perspectives – eds. Timothy Samuel Shah and Allen D. Hertzke

Christianity and Freedom, Volume 2: Contemporary Perspectives – eds. Allen D. Hertzke and Timothy Samuel Shah

Christian Persecutions in the Middle East – George J. Marlin

History

Historical Resources on Africa, Ethiopia, Its Diaspora & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

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Africana Diasporic Intellectual Heritage

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The Oriental Orthodox Churches – Addis Ababa Conference, January 1965

History

Historical Resources on Africa, Ethiopia, Its Diaspora & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church​

Additional Resources

The Oriental Orthodox Churches – Addis Ababa Conference, January 1965

Historical Resources on Africa, Ethiopia, Its Diaspora & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church