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An Old Amharic poem from northern Ethiopia: one more text on condemning glory
Maria Bulakh, Denis Nosnitsin
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19 July 2019, pp. 315-350
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This article presents a publication and translation (with linguistic and philological commentaries) of a recently discovered piece of Old Amharic poetry, possibly dating to the first half/middle of the seventeenth century. The published text bears the title Märgämä kəbr (“Condemnation of glory”), but its content differs from that of several other Old Amharic poems (not entirely independent from each other) known under the same title. It is only the general idea and the main topics that are shared by all Märgämä kəbr poems: transience of the earthly world, the inevitability of death and of God's judgement, and the necessity of leading a virtuous life. One can thus speak of Märgämä kəbr as a special genre of early Amharic literature, probably originally belonging to the domain of oral literature and used to address the Christian community with the aim of religious education and admonition of laymen.

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An Old Amharic poem from northern Ethiopia: one more text on condemning glory

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Arik Sadan and Almog Kasher: A Critical Edition of the Grammatical Treatise Mīzān al-ʿArabiyya by Ibn al-ʾAnbārī (d. 577/1181). (Arabische Studien, 15.) x, 116 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. ISBN 978 3 447 11004 4.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Hasan Peker: Texts from Karkemish I: Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from the 2011–2015 Excavations. (OrientLab Series Maior, Vol. 1.) Bologna: Ante Quem, 2016. ISBN 978 887849111 3.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Peter Schadler: John of Damascus and Islam: Christian Heresiology and the Intellectual Background to Earliest Christian–Muslim Relations. (History of Christian–Muslim Relations, 34.) ix, 264 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ISBN 978 90 04 34965 0.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludĕk Vacín (eds): Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honor of Markham J. Geller. (Ancient Magic and Divination.) xiv, 936 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. €204. ISBN 978 90 04 36806 4.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Damaris Wilmers: Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr's (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity. x, 396 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €129.00. ISBN 978 90 04 37835 3.

Robert G. Hoyland: The ‘History of the Kings of the Persians’ in Three Arabic Chronicles. The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. (Translated Texts for Historians 69.) xii, 185 pp. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. £80. ISBN 978 1 78694 146 6.

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (ed. and trans.): Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I. (Bibliotheca Maqriziana 5.) x, 512 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. £120.75. ISBN 978 90 04 35553 8.

Alain George and Andrew Marsham (eds): Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam: Perspectives on Umayyad Elites. xx, 348 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 19 049893 1.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Benjamin R. Foster: Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Part 2. 200 pp. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018. $39.95. ISBN 978 1 948488 08 2.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Elias Muhanna: The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition. 214 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 069117556 0.

Reviews: The ancient Near East

Ulrike Siegel: Die Residenz des Kalifen Hārūn ar-Rašīd in ar-Raqqa/ar-Rāfiqa (Syrien). (Raqqa 4.) xii, 318 pp., 60 plates. Berlin: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut and Walter de Gruyter, 2017. €99.95. ISBN 978 3 11 054975 1.

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Rebecca Skreslet Hernandez: The Legal Thought of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī: Authority and Legacy. (Oxford Islamic Legal Studies.) ix, 238 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978 0 19 880593 9.

Georg Leube: Kinda in der frühislamischen Geschichte. Eine prosopographische Studie auf der Basis der frühen und klassischen arabisch–islamischen Geschichtsschreibung. (Mitteilungen zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der islamischen Welt.) 244 pp. Würzburg: Ergon, 2017. ISBN 978 3 95650 294 1.

Robert Irwin: Ibn Khaldun: an Intellectual Biography. xxi, 243 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 691 17466 2.

Gregory Lipton: Rethinking Ibn ʿArabi. xv, 285 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 0 19 068450 1.

Nefeli Papoutsakis and Syrinx von Hees (eds): The Sultan's Anthologist – Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah and His Work. 436 pp. Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978 3 95650 282 8.

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