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The Gate of Faith

አንቀጸ፡ አሚን፡ (ʾAnqaṣa ʾamin) · ʾƎnbāqom (Enbaqom), abbot of Dabra Libānos · 16th c. (author active 1523-1563; work before 1565) · treatise · LIT1109Anqasa

Ethiopic · domain: theology · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT1109Anqasa lists only van Donzel's edition (bm:Donzel1969Enbaqom) and his EAE lemma - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/1001-2000/LIT1109Anqasa.xml. That edition is French: Harvard holds 'Anqaṣa amin (La porte de la foi); apologie éthiopienne du christianisme contre l'Islam à partir du Coran', Leiden: Brill, 1969, language fre (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Anqasa&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Enbaqom' returns 5 records, only the French 1969 volume relevant; 'Anqasa Amin English' returns 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Anqasa%20Amin%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation located.

Ethiopia's major Christian apology against Islam, arguing from the Quran itself; a text of first importance for Christian-Muslim documentation that is nonetheless read in English scholarship only through van Donzel's French rendering and secondary quotations. The Beta Masaheft work record carries no manuscript list, so manuscript coverage must be taken from the edition itself.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Anqaṣa amin (La porte de la foi): apologie éthiopienne du christianisme contre l'Islam à partir du Coran · van Donzel · 1969

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
LIT1109Anqasa

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: ʾƎnbāqom abbot of Dabra Libānos — 0 record(s). No catalogue record was retrieved.

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Gate of Faith” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-enbaqom-anqasa-amin