- The
Fetha Negest (Ge'ez: ፍትሐ ነገሥት, romanized: fətḥa nägäśt, lit. 'Justice of the Kings') is a
theocratic legal code
compiled around 1240 by the Coptic...
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canon seems to have been
created by
Ethiopian scholars commenting on the
Fetha Negest law code,
which says that the
canon contains 81 books, but only lists...
- the
particularly observant. The
general list of
fasts are laid out in the
Fetha Negest.
During fasts, the
observant are
required to
partake in no more than...
- centuries-old
Fetha Negest and
Fetha Negest scholars still prevail in
discussions on
points of law and
conflict between the old and the new.
Under the old
Fetha Negest...
- Sel****ie (obverse)
Imperial Standard of
Haile Sel****ie (reverse)
Kebra Nagast Fetha Negest History of
Ethiopia Monarchies of
Ethiopia Nathaniel T. Kenney, "Ethiopian...
- Horn of Africa. A no less
important work
produced during his
reign was the
Fetha Nagast or "Law of the Kings,"
which served as the country's
legal code....
-
Coptic Egyptian Christian writer, 'Abul Fada'il Ibn al-'****al,
wrote the
Fetha Negest in Arabic. 'Ibn al-****al took his laws
partly from
apostolic writings...
-
based on its ****erted
descent from king
Solomon of
ancient Israel), and the
Fetha Nagast (a
legal code used in
Ethiopia at
least as
early as 1450 to define...
-
constitution of the
Ethiopian Empire,
intended to
officially replace the
Fetha Nagast,
which had been the
supreme law
since the
Middle Ages. It was promulgated...
-
along with the Syro-Roman law book, also
formed the
basis for much of the
Fetha Negest,
which remained in
force in
Ethiopia until 1931.[citation needed]...
