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The Ethiopia Book of Travels
Azmzade Sadık el-Müeyyed
Edited and Translated by Gıyas Müeyyed Gökkent
1906
Surviving a lightning strike, sleeping with deadly scorpions and snakes, crossing a volcano, or having an audience with Lady Desta and her thirty slaves, the English agent Ármin Vámbéry, or Sultans and Emperors. These were all in a day’s work for Azmzade Sadık el-Müeyyed, an Ottoman officer, statesman, and truly a renaissance man.
‘The Ethiopia Book of Travels’ takes you to June 1904 to accompany Sadık Pasha on a mission for Sultan Abdulhamid II to go before Emperor Menelik II, the ruler of Ethiopia to thwart Italian colonial ambitions. This is the second of Sadık Pasha’s books on his mission to Africa to counter the West European powers’ scramble for Africa after his ‘Journey in the African Grand Sahara’ published in 1897.
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Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa and Through Time
Azmzade Sadık el-Müeyyed
Gıyas Müeyyed Gökkent
Contributors:
Giyasiddin Gökkent, Iklil Azmzade
Orhan Osmansoy, Ala Fakhri Al Senusi
The years between 1890-1905 were the height of colonialism as West European powers conquered much of Africa. ‘Journey in the African Grand Sahara and Through Time’ takes you to October 1895 to accompany Azmzade Sadık el-Müeyyed on a mission for the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II to go before Sheikh Mohamed Al Mahdi Al-Senusi, the leader of the most influential religious order in North Africa at the time. Fast forward over a century and their descendants tie the past to the present against the background of an ongoing struggle for the future of Libya by regional and global powers.
