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Articles

<table><tr><td>NORBERT NEBES, Die Märtyrer von Nagrān und das Ende der Himyar. Zur politischen Geschichte Südarabiens im frühen sechsten Jahrhundert</td><td>7</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>WALTER W. MÜLLER, Abasener und Adulis</td><td>41</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>YARON PERRY, German Mission in Abyssinia: Wilhelm Staiger from Baden, 1835–1904</td><td>48</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>RICHARD PANKHURST, Two Unpublished 19th Century Ethiopian Letters: From Emperor Tewodros to Sir Robert Napier, and from Dāğğazmać Nəguše to Naib Hasän Bey</td><td>61</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>EDWARD O. ERHAGBE – EHIMIKA A. IFIDON, African-Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis, 1935–1936: The Practical Dimension of Pan-Africanism</td><td>68</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>BALÁZS SZÉLINGER, Hungary and the Italo-Ethiopian Conflict (1935–1936)</td><td>85</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>JON ABBINK, Muslim Monasteries? Some Aspects of Religious Culture in Northern Ethiopia</td><td>117</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>ALESSANDRO GORI, The Study of Arabic Grammar in Ethiopia: The Case of two Contemporary Muslim Learned Men</td><td>134</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>LUKIAN PRIJAC, Déborah Lifszyc (1907–1942) : Ethnologue et linguiste (de Gondär à Auschwitz)</td><td>148</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>RAINER VOIGT, Zum Tigre</td><td>173</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>RAINER VOIGT, Bibliographie zur äthiosemitischen und kuschitischen Sprachwissenschaft XI: 2006</td><td>194</td></tr></table>

Miscellaneous

<table><tr><td>ROBERT BEYLOT, Une source nouvelle de l’Histoire de la Reine du Matin et de Soliman, Prince des Génies de Gérard de Nerval</td><td>203</td></tr></table>
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TEDROS ABRAHA, *Remembering Abunä Yaʿaqob Gäbrä Iyäsus*
(1889–1969) .................................................................................................................. 206

*Addenda et Corrigenda zu MAIJA PRIESS, Die äthiopische Chrysostomos-Anaphora (Aethiopistische Forschungen 68), Wiesbaden 2006* .................... 210

*Addenda to the Bibliography of REIDULF K. MOLVAER, Fieldwork, Serendipity, and Ethiopian Women, in Aethiopica 10 (2007)* .................................................................................................................. 215

Personalia

In memoriam Taddäsä Bäyyänä (1936–2006) (Baye Yimam) .................... 216

In memoriam Lanfranco Ricci (1916–2007) (Yaqob Beyene) .................... 217

In memoriam Marvin Lionel Bender (1934–2008) (Grover Hudson) ..... 223

Review articles

HATEM ELLIESIE, *Ambarisch als diplomatische Sprache im Völkervertragsrecht* .................................................................................................................. 235

ELISABETH BIASIO, *Heilige und Helden. Äthiopien zeitgenössische Malerei im traditionellen Stil (Anaïs Wion)* ........................ 244

Reviews

STANISLAW CHOJNACKI, in collaboration with CAROLYN GOSSAGE, *Ethiopian Crosses – A Cultural History and Chronology* (Elisabeth Biasio) .................................................................................................................. 252

JOHN JEREMY HESPELER-BOULTBEE, *A Story in Stones: Portugal’s Influence on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia 1493–1634* (Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner) ................................................ 254

ALESSANDRO BAUSI – ALESSANDRO GORI, *Tradizioni orientali del «Martirio di Areta». La prima recensione araba e la versione etiopica. Edizione critica e traduzione* (Veronika Six) ................................................ 258

ALBRECHT BERGER (ed.), *Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar. Introduction, Critical Edition and Translation* (Alessandro Bausi) .................................................................................................................. 262

DAVID L. APPLEYARD, *A Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages* (Andreas Joswig) .................................................................................................................. 266

RONNY MEYER, *Wolane. Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic)* (David L. Appleyard) .................................................. 269
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*Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg July 20–25, 2003*, ed. by SIEGBERT UHLIG et al. (Stefan Weninger) ................................................................................ 271

TEODROS KIROS, *Zara Yacob. A Seventeenth Century Rationalist: Philosopher of the Rationality of the Heart* (Andrej Krause) .................... 273

ABBEBE KIFLEYESUS, *Tradition and Transformation: The Argobba of Ethiopia* (Ulrich Braukämper) .................................................................... 276

BAIRU TAFLA, *Troubles and Travels of an Eritrean Aristocrat: A Presentation of Käntiba Gilamika'él's Memoirs* (Irma Taddia) .................... 279

RAINER BAUDENDISTEL, *Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–1936* (Bairu Tafla) ................................................................................................................ 281

MAY YDLIBI, *With Ethiopian Rulers: a Biography of Hasib Ydlibi* (Hanna Rubinkowska) ................................................................................ 283

TESEMA TA'A, *The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: The Case of Macca Oromo* (Ethiopia) (Stefan Brüne) ................................................................................................................ 285

PAULOS MILKIAS and GETACHEW METAFERIA (edited by), *The Battle of Adwa. Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory against European Colonialism* (Federica Guazzini) ........................................ 287

DAVID TURTON (ed.), *Ethnic Federalism. The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective* (Alexander Kellner) .................... 291

IVO STRECKER – JEAN LYDALL (eds.), *The Perils of Face. Essays on Cultural Contact, Respect and Self-esteem in Southern Ethiopia* (Alke Dohrmann) ................................................................................ 294

GEORGI L. KAPCHITS, *Sentence Particles in the Somali Language and their Usage in Proverbs* (Giorgio Banti) .................................................... 297

Conferences .................................................................................................................. 301