{"product_id":"the-monk-on-the-roof-the-story-of-an-ethiopian-manuscript-found-in-jerusalem-1904-9789004423855","title":"The Monk on the Roof: The Story of an Ethiopian Manuscript Found in Jerusalem (1904)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround 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.    Have a look inside the book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Acknowledgments for the English Edition  List of Figures  Note on Transliteration and Dates    Introduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript   1 A Sidestep   2 Three Readings   3 Microcosm, Macrocosm    1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery   1 A Monastery on a Roof   2 One Place, Two Memories   3 Histories and Research about the Monastery   4 The Limits of Previous Studies    2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript   1 The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community   2 An Unpublished Manuscript   3 A Cryptic Text    3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text   1 A Text Based on Another Dated 1893   2 Sources: The Backbone of the Text   3 Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations   4 A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text    4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–1903   1 Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict   2 A Community with No Legal Autonomy   3 Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul    5 With Memory as His Only Weapon   1 A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims   2 Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation   3 Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation   4 A Respond to the Coptic Arguments    6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation   1 A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources   2 No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?   3 A New Interest for Jerusalem   4 Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts   5 Presenting the Community as Homogeneous    7 The Ethiopians in a Global City   1 Rediscovering Jerusalem   2 Imperial Ethiopia   3 The Opening of an Ottoman City   4 Modernization of Local Administration   5 Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites   6 Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …   7 … And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others    Conclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary    Amharic Text and English Translation of Walda Madhen    Appendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893  Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852  Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893  Appendix 4: Short Chronology  Sources and Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210793902423,"sku":"9789004423855","price":130.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-monk-on-the-roof-the-story-of-an-ethiopian-manuscript-found-in-jerusalem-1904-9789004423855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}