Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2025 Vol. 28 P. 39–52
The article deals with the curse formula belonging to the sixth-century inscription by an Aksumite king Wʿzb (RIÉ 192 B, ll. 5–9). After summarizing the extant interpretations, the author proposes a new reading and interpretation, arguing that the text under scrutiny follows the same pattern and employs the same rhetoric devices as the curse formulas ...
Added: May 23, 2026
Bulakh M., , in: From Aksum to Lalibäla. The Myth of the “Dark Ages” of Eritrean and Ethiopian History (7th–13th centuries).: Napoli: UniorPress, 2026. P. 53–69.
It is generally acknowledged that Old Ethiopic (Gəʕz) was a spoken language in the Aksumite kingdom, and that it enjoyed high status both politically and culturally. Likewise, it is generally acknowledged that Old Ethiopic ceased to be a spoken language before the Solomonic dynasty came to power. However, both the circumstances that led to its ...
Added: March 12, 2026
Gusarova E., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 Vol. 5 P. 191–200
Ethiopia is one of the most ethnically heterogeneous countries of the African continent. The overwhelming majority of its peoples have no literary tradition of their own. As a result, their lifestyle, manners and customs can be examined through field researches with only few exceptions. In this connection the Amhara and the Təgräy ethnic groups, who ...
Added: December 29, 2025
Ufimtsev A., Замесина С. Н., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 1 С. 68–88
This article explores the integration of new African BRICS members into the scientific and educational cooperation within BRICS. Despite significant criticism regarding the still limited scope of scientific collaborations between BRICS countries, there is a steadily growing number of interaction formats in the fields of science, technology, and education. To provide an accurate assessment, the ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society, США 2025 Vol. 145 No. 3 P. 623–634
Arab lexicographers rarely attempted to search for a foreign origin of Arabic words, trying instead to derive them—not very persuasively—from autochthonous Arabic roots. Known exceptions mostly involve Persian, a foreign language par excellence for most Arab philologists. This article explores this phenomenon in a different linguistic domain, viz., loanwords from Classical Ethiopic (Geʿez), the language ...
Added: September 19, 2025
Денисова Т. С., Костелянец С. В., Азия и Африка сегодня 2025 № 6 С. 35–44
Ethiopia is home to numerous ethnic groups, each with distinct languages, customs, and traditions. While this ethnic diversity has shaped the country’s rich cultural heritage, it has also fueled domestic political tensions under the legacy of “divide and rule” policies perpetuated by successive regimes, including post-imperial rulers (i.e., those after 1974). These tensions often escalate ...
Added: September 14, 2025
Bulakh M., Gebre Selassie Y., Aethiopica 2022 Vol. 25 P. 125–159
In 1974 the renowned Ethiopianist Lanfranco Ricci inspected the site of Ḥǝnzat in central Tǝgray. Inter alia, he inspected and photographed a stele with a lengthy inscription. In 2014, Yohannes Gebre Selassie published an article on an inscription which he labelled HS1, and which he believed to be a second inscription on a stele found ...
Added: March 10, 2025
Krzyżanowska M., Ghion-Hamadu K., Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2023 Vol. 26 P. 226–231
A bibliography of publications in English, German, French, Italian, Amharic, Russian etc. dealing with Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics, published in 2022. ...
Added: March 6, 2025
Degterev D. A., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2024 № 5(86) С. 132–149
The article analyses the results of the first year of Ethiopia’s participation in the BRICS activities. The author conducts an applied analysis of the country’s foreign policy stances on certain issues (inter alia its voting record at the UN General Assembly) before and after joining the association. The focus is on an assessment of Addis ...
Added: January 25, 2025
Bulakh M., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2026 Vol. 89 No. 2 P. 367–399
ʔAbbā Garimā I and III (AG I and III) are the oldest manuscripts written in Geez (Old Ethiopic). According to a recent radiocarbon analysis they are dated to the Aksumite period. The present paper confronts the orthography of these manuscripts with that of the epigraphic corpus of the Aksumite period (the comparison is restricted to ...
Added: December 17, 2024
Gusarova E., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология 2022 № 73 С. 49–57
A number of works by both Ethiopian researchers and clergymen, and scholars outside of Ethiopia are devoted to the process of making of Ethiopian manuscripts and of their copying. Most of these works describe the features of the process of writing on the base of the experience of contemporary Ethiopian scribes. Historical data on the ...
Added: February 6, 2024
Bulakh M., Journal of Near Eastern studies 2024 Vol. 83 No. 1 P. 77–89
ʔAbbā Garimā I (AG I) is among the oldest extant manuscripts written in Old Ethiopic (Geez). A recent radiocarbon analysis dates AG I to the 6th–7th cent. AD. The present study provides additional evidence for the early dating of the manuscript: it preserves all gutturals and sibilants intact (in contrast to post-Aksumite manuscripts, characterized by ...
Added: December 18, 2023