Research Catalog

Title

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia : 1300-1700 / Mohammed Hassen.

Author

Hassen, Mohammed

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015.

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Details

Description

xx, 379 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development, rebutting the common depiction of the Oromo as no more than a destructive force and demonstrating their significant role in shaping the course of Ethiopian history. Tracing the early history of the Oromo as part of the Cushitic language speaking family of peoples, it establishes that they were neither foreigners nor newcomers to Ethiopia, but have been an integral part of the indigenous population since at least the first half of the 14th century. The massive 16th-century pastoral Oromo population movement revolutionized relations between the Christians and the Oromo. During the long process of assimilation that followed, with periods of both war and peace in central and southern Ethiopia, Oromo society was able to absorb and assimilate Cushitic and Semitic language speakers and Oromize them through the open, democratic and egalitarian Gada system; while in northern Ethiopia the Oromo themselves were absorbed into Christian Amhara society."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Eastern Africa series

Uniform Title

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Subjects

• Cushites > Ethiopia > History
• Black author
• Ethiopia > History > 1490-1889
• Ethiopia > History > To 1490
• Oromo (African people) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-365) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Early Interactions among the Oromo, Christian and Muslim Peoples: Traditions and Institutions -- Oromo Peoples in the Medieval Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia before 1500 -- The Homelands of the Pastoral Oromo before 1500 -- The Pastoral Oromo Confront the Christian Kingdom c.1440s-1559 -- Movements of Pastoral Oromo into the Christian Kingdom 1559-1600 -- Abba Bahrey's Zenahu Le Galla and its Impact on Emperor Za-Dengel's War against the Oromo 1603-1604 -- The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom 1600-1618 -- Oromo Christianization, Conflict and Identity 1618-1700 -- Epilogue.

Call Number

Sc E 16-2

ISBN

• 9781847011176
• 1847011179

OCLC

907141412

Author

Hassen, Mohammed, author.

Title

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia : 1300-1700 / Mohammed Hassen.

Publisher

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Eastern Africa series

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-365) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-2