Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul.
- ISBN10 9004423850
- ISBN13 9789004423855
- Publish Date 18 November 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 302
- Language English
- URL brill.com/product_id4057763