Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: Economic and Political Background .
Trade and politics in the Red Sea to 1500
Trade, Islam and Christianity in the
Horn of Africa until the rise of
the Solomonic dynasty
Chapter II: Ethiopia's Foreign Relations to 1500
The Solomonic monarchs, the Horn's
Muslims and Egypt
Ethiopia, the Red Sea and Christian
Europe -early contacts' 25
Chapter III: Government, Ad.ministration, Army and
Church to 1500 .
Feudal government and military system .
Administration
Reform and the Ethiopian church
Chapter IV: The Rise of the Muslim Kingdom of
Ethiopia in the Sixteenth Century
- Power Politics
Political decline and Jihad
The pastoralist element
The background for Muslim victory -
the reign of Libna Dingil
The Muslim conquest (futuh) of Ethiopia
ChapterV: The' Revival of the Solomonic Monarchy
and the Decline of Muslim Power in
the Horn
The Portuguese expedition to Ethiopia and the rise of Gelawdewos
The reconsolidation of Christian Ethiopia and the decline of Adal
Chapter VI: Trade and Power Politics in the Red
Sea and the Indian Ocean in the
Sixteenth Century
Chapter VII:the Rise of Galla Power in the Hom
The Galla and the disintegration of Ada)
The Solornonic dynasty and the rise of Galla power
Ethiopia's military system reorganized
The collapse of Tigrean separatism and the Ottoman threat
Economy and expansionism
A Galla settlement in the plateau
Serse-Dingil's reign - an evaluation
Chapter VIII:A Period of Transition
Ethiopian-European relations: the missionary era
A decade of , interregnum' - first attempts at modernisation
power politics and Ethiopia at the beginning of the seventeenth century
The Galla-controlled plateau at the beginning of the seventeenth century
Chapter IX: The Reign of Susinyos - A Seventeenth
Century attempt at Westemisation .
The consolidation of Susinyos' government and Galla power
Administration army and the Galla
Ethiopian expansionism, economy and the Funj sultanate
Reform and Westernisation
Chapter X: Imposed Conversion and the Triumph of the National Church
Conclusion
Bibliography
INDEX
Maps
The Horn of Africa at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century
Western Part of Indian Ocean Littoral,
Ethiopia and the Extent of Galla Migration by the
Seventeenth' Century
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