Monk on the Roof

Stéphane Ancel, Ph.D. (2006, Paris), is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is a specialist of the contemporary history of Ethiopia. He has published many articles and translations related to the history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Ph.D. (2020, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), is a researcher at Hiob Ludolf Centre for Eritrean and Ethiopian Studies, Universität Hamburg. She is a linguist specializing in the Amharic language. She has also published on topics related to Ethiopic manuscript culture and Amharic literature.Vincent Lemire, Ph.D. (2006, Paris), is an associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris-Est/Gustave Eiffel, and the current director of the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (CRFJ). He studies contemporary Jerusalem and the Middle Eastern history. He is the author of many monographs, including Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

• AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments for the English EditionList of FiguresNote on Transliteration and DatesIntroduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript1 A Sidestep2 Three Readings3 Microcosm, Macrocosm1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery1 A Monastery on a Roof2 One Place, Two Memories3 Histories and Research about the Monastery4 The Limits of Previous Studies2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript1 The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community2 An Unpublished Manuscript3 A Cryptic Text3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text1 A Text Based on Another Dated 18932 Sources: The Backbone of the Text3 Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations4 A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–19031 Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict2 A Community with No Legal Autonomy3 Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul5 With Memory as His Only Weapon1 A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims2 Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation3 Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation4 A Respond to the Coptic Arguments6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation1 A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources2 No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?3 A New Interest for Jerusalem4 Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts5 Presenting the Community as Homogeneous7 The Ethiopians in a Global City1 Rediscovering Jerusalem2 Imperial Ethiopia3 The Opening of an Ottoman City4 Modernization of Local Administration5 Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites6 Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …7 … And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from OthersConclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the SanctuaryAmharic Text and English Translation of Walda MadhenAppendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893Appendix 4: Short ChronologySources and BibliographyIndex