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" -- Hussein Ahmed is a Professor of History at Addis Ababa University. He is a leading historian of Islam in Ethiopia. * * * "In the history of conflict in Africa and beyond, "few stories of drama and human tragedy equal" Imama Ahmad's conquest of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia (1529-1543). His short lived spectacular victories and determination to replace Christianity by Islam and the remarkable survival of Christianity in Ethiopia" is a story of epic proportions" which still generates strong emotion among both the Christian and the Muslim population of Ethiopia. In other words, Imam Ahmad's jihadic war besides being legendary was a major turning point...This is truly a wonderful work, which is destined to remain an indispensable source for the history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa during the first half of the tumultuous sixteenth century. Anyone interested in understanding the intensity and brutality of religious war will be rewarded by reading this classic." -- Mohammed Hassen is an Associate Professor of African history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History 1570-1860.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence

• Full title: Conquest of Abyssinia
• Subtitle: Futuh Al Habasa
• Author: Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin Abd al-Qader bin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 444
• EAN: 9780972317269
• ISBN: 9780972317269
• ID: 07425602
• Publisher: Tsehai Publishers
• Weight: 802 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 154 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. January 2005

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