Various scholars have identified these books as: The second part, concerning issues pertaining to the laity, such as family law, debt, civil administration etc., also drew on these sources, but is attributed in large part to four books referred to as the Canons of the Emperors (Arabic Qawānīn al-mulūk). Hippolytus, and various canons adopted at the Council of Nicaea, the Council of Antioch, and others. It was compiled from the Bible, writings of early Church fathers including St. The first part of Fetha Negest deals with mostly ecclesiastic affairs, outlining the structure of the Church hierarchy, sacraments, and such matters.
Ibn al-Assal took his laws partly from apostolic writings, and partly from former law codes of the Byzantine rulers.
It was later translated into Ge'ez in Ethiopia in the 15th century and expanded upon with numerous local laws.
The Fetha Negest ( Ge'ez: ፍትሐ ነገሥት, romanized: fətḥa nägäśt, lit.'Justice of the Kings') is a theocratic legal code compiled around 1240 by the Coptic Egyptian Christian writer Abu'l-Fada'il ibn al-Assal in Arabic.
