Dabra Libānos
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ደብረ፡ ሊባኖስ፡↗ normalized: Dabra Libānos↗ alt: ዓስቦ፡↗ normalized: ʿAsbo↗ Šawā↗ Zega Wädäb↗ Dāmot↗ Šawā↗ ʾIfāt↗
ደብረ፡ ሊባኖስ፡gez
alt: ዓስቦ፡gez
Foundation date
It was founded by ? Takla Hāymānot↗ who is credited with evangelizing the vast regions of central and southern Ethiopia, at the beginning of the 14th century.
History
history: Dabra Libānos, originally known as Dabra ʿAsbo and renamed by ? Zarʾa Yāʿqob↗ is a monastery located in Šawā↗ in the gorge near the river Zega Wädäb↗ . This southern location has to be emphasized: the community was established between the pagan kingdom of Dāmot↗ and the Muslim sultanate of Šawā↗ under the authority of ʾIfāt↗ . According to the hagiography of ʾAnorewos↗ , one of the first disciples of ? Takla Hāymānot↗ , the daily life was under the jurisdiction of the ?. It is known that the monastery enjoyed land donations at least since the half of 15th century during the reign of ? Zarʾa Yāʿqob↗ . The monastery of Dabra Libānos suffered great destruction during the war of ʾAḥmad↗ in 1532. However, it revived soon under ? Galāwdewos↗ and his successor Śarḍa Dǝngǝl↗ during which attempts were made to elevate the monastery to the position of religious centre of the monarchy. But the situation deteriorated due to the massive expansion of the Oromo↗ and increasing isolation of Dabra Libānos from the rest of the Empire.
Secondary Bibliography
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Turaev, B. A. 1906. ዜና፡ ደብረ፡ ሊባኖስ. Povestvovanie o Dabra-Libanosskom monastyre (‘Zena Däbrä Libanos. The History of Däbrä Libanos Monastrery’), tr. Boris A. Turaev, Pamjatniki ėfiopskoj pis’mennosti, 4 (St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. Akad. Nauk, 1906).
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene 2016. Chronicle of King Gälawdewos (1540-1559): Critical Edition and Annotated Translation PhD Dissertation, Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (2016).
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Conzelman, W. El., ed., 1895. Chronique de Galâwdêwos (Claudius) roi d’Éthiopie, Bibliothèque de l’École pratique des hautes études, Sciences philologiques et historiques, 104 (Paris: Librairie Émile Bouillon, Éditeur, 1895).
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Derat, M.-L. 2005. ‘Däbrä Libanos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 25b–28a.
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Nosnitsin, D. 2010. ‘Täklä Haymanot’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 831a–834b.
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, S. 2015. ‘The Chronicle of Emperor Gälawdewos (1540-1559): a source on Ethiopia’s mediaeval historical geography’, in A. Bausi, A. Gori, D. Nosnitsin, and E. Sokolinski, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17–19 July 2014, Supplement to Aethiopica, 4 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 109–118. page 109-118
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Huntingford, G. W. B. 1989. The Historical Geography of Ethiopia From the First Century AD to 1704, ed. R. Pankhurst, Fontes historiae africanae, Series Varia, 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989). page 7, 69, 76, 80, 83, 108, 116, 117, 120, 128, 152-4, 156, 224, 249
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