ʾAlef
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
monastic: አሌፍ፡↗ normalized: ʾAlef↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was one of the Nine Saints who arrived in Ethiopia in the late 5th or early 6th century. According to the tradition, he came originally from Caesarea↗ .
Death
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Names
- monastic: አሌፍ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 490–520
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Grierson, R. 2003. ‘Alef’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 194a-b.
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Sergew Hable Selassie 1972. Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa: United Printers, 1972). page 115, 116, 118, 119
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Tedeschi, S. 1991. ‘Ethiopian Saints’, in A. S. Atiya, ed., The Coptic Encyclopedia, IV (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991), 1044a–1056a. page 1046
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Brita, A. 2012. ‘Il Gadla Alēf’, in A. Bausi, A. Brita, A. Manzo, C. Baffioni, and E. Francesca, eds, Æthiopica et Orientalia: Studi in onore di Yaqob Beyene, I, Studi Africanistici, Serie Etiopica, 9 (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, 2012), 69–87.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻʾAlefʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-03-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS1653Alef [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added relation on 28.7.2018
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 4.10.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Dorothea Reule, contributor