Yekuno Amlak of Ethiopia

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Emperor Yekuno Amlak was n gusä nägäst (10 August 1270 - 19 June 1285) of Ethiopia and founder of the Solomonic dynasty. He traced his ancestry through his father, Tasfa Iyasus, to Dil Na'od, the last king of Axum. Much of what is known about Yekuno Amlak is based on oral traditions and medieval hagiographies. Most sources state that he is from Sagarat, (located in the modern Dessie Zuria district of the Amhara Region). Yekuno Amlak was educated at Lake Hayq's Istifanos Monastery near Amba Sel, where later medieval hagiographies state Saint Tekle Haymanot raised and educated him, and helped him to depose the last Zagwe king. Earlier hagiographies, however, state that it was Iyasus Mo'a, the abbot of Istifanos Monastery in Lake Hayq, who helped him achieve power. G.W.B. Huntingford explains this discrepancy by pointing out Istifanos had once been the premier monastery of Ethiopia, but Tekle Haymanot's Debre Libanos eventually eclipsed Istifanos, and from the reign of Amda Seyon it became the custom to appoint the abbot of Debre Libanos Ichege, or secular head of the Ethiopian Church.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131490729
• ISBN-10: 6131490724
• Artikelnr.: 31685237