• 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...
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    (obverse) Imperial Standard of Haile Selassie (reverse) Kebra Nagast Fetha Negest History of Ethiopia Monarchies of Ethiopia Nathaniel T. Kenney, "Ethiopian...
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  • Assembly resolution. Historically, capital punishments was codified under Fetha Negest in order to fulfill societal desire. Death penalty can be applied through...
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    Coptic Egyptian Christian writer, 'Abul Fada'il Ibn al-'Assal, wrote the Fetha Negest in Arabic. 'Ibn al-Assal took his laws partly from apostolic writings...
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    determined beyond dispute, however a great deal was incorporated into the Fetha Negest, which once served as the constitutional basis of law in Ethiopia – where...
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    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...
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    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...
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    reign of his predecessors Asfa Wossen and Wossen Seged followed both the Fetha Negest, the traditional Ethiopian legal code, as well as customary practices...
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    Kebra Nagast (redirect from Kebre Negest)
    dynasty is highly improbable and unsupported by evidence. It is a myth. Fetha Nagast Replacement theology Identified in ch. 14 as "Archbishop of Rôm"...
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  • monumental importance was the appearance of the Ge'ez translation of the Fetha Negest ("Laws of the Kings"), thought to have been made around 1450, and ascribed...
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    monumental importance was the appearance of the Geʽez translation of the Fetha Negest ("Laws of the Kings"), thought to have been around 1450, and ascribed...
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    with the Syro-Roman law book, also formed the basis for much of the Fetha Negest, which remained in force in Ethiopia until 1931. In the west, Justinian's...
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    tribute to the Abyssinians. At around this time, a code known as the Fetha Negest (The Law of the Kings), was translated into Ge'ez and had begun to serve...
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    ordination while one of those repented to the Holy Synod for breaching the Fetha Negest dogma. It was reported that the government, together with the Oromia...
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