CONTENTS: Editor´s Foreword / Vorwort des Herausgebers Internal & External Denomination / Eigen- & Fremdbezeichnungen:Francis Breyer: Äthiopisches in altägyptischen Quellen? Eine kritische EvaluationKlaus Geus: Die Aithiopen und die afrikanische Ostküste in der Geographie des Ptolemaios - Ein ÜberblickWolbert G.C. Smidt: The Term Habäsa - An Ancient Ethnonym of the Abyssinian Highlanders and its Interpretations and ConnotationsReligion:Katrin Seidel / Hatem Elliesie: The Current State of Research on Contemporary Islam in Ethiopia - A Critical AssessmentDirk Bustorf: Islam and Interethnic Dynamics in Southwestern Ethiopia (19th to early 20th Century)Jörg Haustein: Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Ethiopia - A Historical Introduction to a Largely Unexplored MovementMagic & Healing in Ethiopian Christianity / Magie & Heilung im äthiopischen Christentum:Bogdan Burtea: Zur magischen Literatur im christlichen ÄthiopienAstrid Otto: Magier, Wahrsager - Betrüger oder wahre Heiler?Till Peter Otto: Eingenähte Zauberpergamente aus ÄthiopienCulture & Literature / Kultur & Literatur:Angela M. Müller: Yet it is Caused by Malign Blood ...Frederica De Sisto: A Review of Local Systems to Make Peace in the Käfa Society of Southern Ethiopia - Strengths and WeaknessesCarsten Hoffmann: Ethnizität und Ethnogenesen am Horn von Afrika nach den Inschriften von König EzanaMusic & Liturgy / Musik & Liturgie:Ulrike-Rebekka Nieten: Die Gesangstradition der Äthiopisch-Orthodoxen KircheMaija Priess: Die Feuersymbolik in den äthiopischen liturgischen TextenKlaus Wedekind: The Bayati / Bati Scales of the Tambour / Krar and the Lute in Egypt and EthiopiaThe Horn of Africa between the Continents / Das Horn von Afrika zwischen den Kontinenten:Monika Schuol: Soqotra - Drehscheibe für Fernhandel und Kulturtransfer vor dem Horn von Afrika?Gerhard Krebs: König Salomon und Jinmu Tenno - Japan und Äthiopien in der WeltgeschichteDavid Kersting: Piraterie vor der Küste Somalias - Eine kritische Perspektive auf das maritime Horn von Afrika als geopolitische ArenaEducation / Bildungswesen:Joachim W. Herzig / Wolbert G.C. Smidt: Die Neue Hochschullandschaft Äthiopiens - Gegenwärtige EntwicklungenTanja R. Müller: Human Resource Development and the State - Dynamics of the Militarisation of Education in EritreaSaleh Mahmud Idris: The Development of a Writing System to Promote Literacy in EritreaArabic-Ethiopian Relationship / Arabisch-Äthiopische Beziehungen:Zeus Wellnhofer: Die arabisch-altäthiopische Übersetzungsliteratur im historischen Kontext des 13. und 14. JahrhundertsHani Hayajneh: Abessinisches aus den arabischen Überlieferungen - RandbemerkungenLinguistics I: Phonology & Morphology / Sprachwissenschaft I: Phonologie & Morphologie:Orin Gensler: Long a in Modern Ethiosemitic and Proto-EthiosemiticBeniam Mitiku: Morphophonemics of the Causative in HarariCharlotte & Klaus Wedekind: Beja - How Well Does the Current Parser Analyse Input Texts?Linguistics II: Syntax / Sprachwissenschaft II: Syntax:Marlene Guss-Kosicka: Konverbale Konstruktionen im Amharischen und TigrinischenMaria Bulakh: Non-verbal Predication in Epigraphic Ge ezRainer Voigt: Äthiosemitische und oromonische SyntaxREZENSIONEN: The first volume of the series Studien zum Horn von Afrika´ edited by Rainer Voigt and Hatem Elliesie, is entirely devoted to the Festschrift in honour of Professor Rainer Voigt on the occasion of his 70th birthday (17th of January, 2014), which goes under the title Multidisciplinary Views on the Horn of Africa . As specified in the foreword by the editor Hatem Elliesie, this astounding book contains the main results of three different international conferences on the Horn of Africa, hosted by the Rainer Voigt´s chair of Semitic Studies, funded by the Freie Universität Berlin since 2009. [...] As has been said above, despite the broad range of disciplines touched by this work, it must be specified that this first volume of the Studien zum Horn of Afrika [sic!] series offers a first selection of the multidisciplinary aspects concerning this rich geographic and cultural area. We hope that several other volumes will follow in the future, in order to develop and enrich this manifold and seminal branch of knowledge. (Paolo La Spisa in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 2017, 112/1, 281-283) In addition to its contents, there are at least three reasons to consider the book under review an important contribution to Ethiopian studies. First of all, it is presented in the form of a Festschrift in honour of Rainer Voigt, one of the most distinguished Semitists and Ethiopianists, active now for more than four decades, who has contributed extensively to the investigation of Ethiopian Semitic languages as well as the Semitic and Afroasiatic at large, occasionally even beyond these limits. [...] Secondly, this book inaugurates the new series, Studien zum Horn von Afrika (four have appeared to date), published by the Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, a publisher well known to all those interested in African linguistics. The series further expands the number of scholarly contributions on the area of Ethiopian and Eritrean studies, Orbis aethiopicus, or even - with a clearly marked geographical target and with a less methodologically oriented approach - Horn of Africa studies: this aspect is quite in keeping with the heterogeneous profile of the volume. Thirdly, the book documents the scholarly activities developed by the Arbeitskreis Äthiopistik at the Freie Universität Berlin led by Voigt and coordinated by the editor, Hatem Elliesie. In fact, the Festschrift mainly consists of papers presented at three colloquia hosted by the Chair of Semitistik at the FU Berlin since 2009 [...], plus additional contributions from invited authors and fellows. Some of the latter contributions in particular bring the research in some special fields up to date, and offer a valid starting point for further research. [...] The editorial apparatus of this volume is remarkable. Very welcome is the final Index, but there is also a long list of abbreviations that would be more appropriate to an encyclopaedia than to a miscellany [...] The editor and the publishing house should be congratulated for this achievement. (Alessandro Bausi in Aethiopica 20/2017, 276-280)
