Der Gesandtschaftsbericht des Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaymī (Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts): Textanalyse

The article presents an analysis of the diplomatic report of Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaymī al-Kawkabānī (1608-1660), which can be read as a literary travelogue of the embassy from Yemen to Ethiopia. al-Ḥaymī was a scholar, poet, and diplomat. The Zaydī Imām of Yemen, al-Mutawakkil ʿalā-llāh (1644-1676), sent him several times to Hadramaut on important diplomatic missions, while in 1647, he sent him to the king of Abyssinia, Fāsiladas (reigned 1632-1677), who had his seat of government in the capital of Ethiopia at that time, Gondar. The report was completed in the year 1640, one year and five months after al-Ḥaymī’s return.