Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527

Chapter 7

Zara Yaqob tries to establish the coast of Eritrea (261)

Zara Yaqob quarrels with the sultan of Egypt (261-3)

Zara Yaqob send a mission to Europe (264-6)

Chapter 8

Struggle for royal succession led to decline of the Christian kingdom (268)

  • Major struggle for power often preceded the accession of a new monarch (276)

Description of the organization of the royal court (269-275)

Zara Yaqob's uprising (278)

Zara Yaqob's was imprisoned by his brother after their father, the king, died (278)

Zara Yaqob's becomes emperor (280)

  • his candidacy to become an emperor (282)
Plot to remove Zara Yaqob from power (284)

Ethiopia ruled by a regent with a young emperor (286-294)

Adal rebels again (294)

Muslim fighters score decisive victory against Christian Ethiopia (296)

"HALF a century of political strife among the warlords of the Christian kingdom provided the immediate, favourable background for the swift Muslim conquest under the remarkable leadership of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim or Gragn." (297)

Most of the conquered territory of the Christian empire was only minimally Christianized (297)

A strong Muslim state is established in Adal (299)

The rise of Islam in the Red Sea empowered Gragn (300)

many of the difficulties which befell the Christian kingdom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries can
be attributed, directly or indirectly, to the disastrous effects of the wars of Gragn (301)

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