TY - JOUR AU - Yesufe, Endris Mohammed PY - 2017/10/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Ramsa of šayḫ Aḥmad Ādam, al-Danī al-Awwal (d. 1903) JF - Aethiopica JA - Aethiopica VL - 19 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15460/aethiopica.19.1.1130 UR - https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/1130 SP - 102-112 AB - <p class="AethiopicaSummaryAbs1">The Muslim scholars of Wällo are known for composing panegyrics that are usually chanted on special occasions or gatherings like <em>ḥaḍra</em> and <em>Mawlid</em> (festival to solemnize the birthday of the Prophet). The <em>Ramsa</em> is a very famous collection of poems made up of three Arabic litanies: the first two of them were composed by <em>šayḫ</em> Aḥmad Ādam (d. 1903) the founder of Dana, centre of Islamic learning and mysticism located in Yäǧǧu province, northeastern Wällo. The third one is by<em> šayḫ</em> Ibrāhīm Č̣ale (d. 1958). This paper is a preliminary attempt to introduce the first of the three invocational poems composing the <em>Ramsa</em> to the academic world, to give a first impression of the level of Arabic proficiency of local Ethiopian scholars and to discuss the message the text contains as part of a spiritual culture practiced and cherished for at least a century by both the Muslim intelligentsia and the laity. Some codicological information about one of the manuscripts which preserve these texts is also given.</p> ER -