Hassen, Mohammed, author.
Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015.
Added to CLICnet on 05/02/2016
Check CLICnet for availability
Part of the series Eastern Africa series;Eastern African studies (London, England)
Notes:
- 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 — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-365) and index.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Oromo (African people) — History.
- Cushites — Ethiopia — History.
- Ethiopia — History — To 1490.
- Ethiopia — History — 1490-1889.
- Cushites fast (OCoLC)fst00885476
- Oromo (African people) fast (OCoLC)fst01048392
- Ethiopia. fast (OCoLC)fst01205830
- To 1889 fast
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
Requested by Zaman, M.