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Can I read Dawit Worku, Kidane: The Ethics of Zärɔa Yacәqob on EtoBox?
Dawit Worku, Kidane: The Ethics of Zärɔa Yacәqob by Leonardo Cohen is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dawit Worku, Kidane: The Ethics of Zärɔa Yacәqob about?
According to the thesis put forth by Dawit Worku Kidane, the 17 th century gave birth to a unique Ethiopian text, the specific characteristics of which led several scholars to suggest that the original author was outside the Horn of Africa's Christian literary tradition. The work Kidane refers to is the Ḥatäta (Philosophical Inquiry) by Zärɔa Yacəqob (1599-1692), a short text challenging several fundamental dogmas of local Christianity, defending a view of faith centered on reason. A personal reflection unparalleled in Ethiopian literary history, it rigorously questions the legitimacy of religious practices, such as fasting and monasticism, as well as social practices, such as polygamy, slavery, and women's subordination to men. On the one hand, the authorship of the text is still in question since many well-known scholars, such as Carlo Conti Rossini, Ignazio Guidi, Eugen Mittwoch, Enno Litmann and Boris Aleksandrovich Turaev, are inclined to attribute the work to the Capuchin Giusto da Urbino, who spent several years in Ethiopia during the 19 th century. 1 On the other hand, Kidane favors the evidence presented by Claude Sumner, who suggests that the two parts of the text are wri
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- Author
- Leonardo Cohen
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)