Encyclopaedia Aethiopica

The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, is a major scholarly reference work covering Ethiopian and Eritrean history, culture and religion across multiple volumes, assembled by a leading Ethiopianist and drawing on contributions from specialists across the field. Its authority rests on that broad collaborative expert compilation, making it a standard first reference point for Ethiopian studies including the country's ancient Christian and Islamic religious history. As a multi-contributor reference work, entry quality and depth vary somewhat by contributor and by how much specialist attention a given topic has received, and for any single entry needing close scrutiny, following that entry's own citations into the dedicated monograph literature it draws on is the appropriate next step.