Apparently all the inhabitants ran away when they saw the Portuguese coming, but the Portuguese mention that there were two mosques and a school, probably a dugsi, where they had wooden boards and ink, Loox.
The inhabitants didn't ran away I saw twitter user debunking this I forget the user tho
*Sheikg Isaxaaq tomb is far more famous and well guarded in Maydh.The two musjid with burial grounds sounds like they’re describing sheekh sheekh ciise’s tomb
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What was the ethnic composition of Maydh when the Portuguese arrived in the historic town? .
Maydh was inhabited by the Harti during the 16th century, as described by the Futuh al Habasha. Zero evidence that Arabs built this town, or any other town in the north for that matter.What was the ethnic composition of Maydh when the Portuguese arrived in the historic town? I heard some sources stating that Maydh was an Arab settlement and one of the principle cities along the northern Somali coast. Al Masudi mentions the Arab tribes that inhabited the northern Somali coast in the book of Aqeeliyoon.
They spoke a language which the Portuguese, who were familiar with Arabic, couldn’t recognize. Stop the copeWhat was the ethnic composition of Maydh when the Portuguese arrived in the historic town? I heard some sources stating that Maydh was an Arab settlement and one of the principle cities along the northern Somali coast. Al Masudi mentions the Arab tribes that inhabited the northern Somali coast in the book of Aqeeliyoon.
The Futuh Al Habesha also mentions the people of Maydh were HartiWhat was the ethnic composition of Maydh when the Portuguese arrived in the historic town? I heard some sources stating that Maydh was an Arab settlement and one of the principle cities along the northern Somali coast. Al Masudi mentions the Arab tribes that inhabited the northern Somali coast in the book of Aqeeliyoon.
The Futuh Al Habesha also mentions the people of Maydh were Harti
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The Futuh Al Habesha also mentions the people of Maydh were Harti
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Oh man i remember seeing this and also coming up with a similar conclusion but i remember being persuaded otherwise. There is even a somali elder native to harar and his name is haji ciise sheekh cumar cusmaan also known as cumar ajuraan.The Jarän are interesting because the name has an umlaut, and should be pronounced with an ‘ae’ as in ‘Jaraen’ which sounds a lot like Gareen, the royal family of the Ajuran.
39 years later...This is from the year 1520. The Portuguese 13 years earlier had sacked Barawa, and in the late 1510s had attacked both Zeila and Berbera, the principal ports of Adal. I’m very confident that every person in the Somali peninsula, both on the coast and in the interior, had heard about these destructive Sea Peoples and were on guard.
A few years later a contingent of knights would come from Maydh to join the Conquest of Abyssinia, and many of them would have been boys (or what we call teenagers today) at the time when this temporary evacuation had happened.
On the left was the Somali tribe of Harti, from the people of Mait; a people not given to yielding. There were three hundred of them, famous among the infantry as stolid as swordsmen.....One of the Arabs called Hamzah al-Jufi engaged in a battle to the death in front of the Imam of the Muslims. He was one of the footsoldiers and stood his ground and stood the test, confronting war with a full heart. He never struck one infidel whom he did not unhorse, dead. He killed so vast a number of them in the middle of the river, that the river water was turned red by the blood. The whole tribe of Harti was like him. Page 78.
Oh man i remember seeing this and also coming up with a similar speculation but i remember being persuaded otherwise. There is even a somali elder native to harar and his name is haji ciise sheekh cumar cusmaan also known as cumar ajuraan.
Idk why I typed sheekh sheekh nacala*Sheikg Isaxaaq tomb is far more famous and well guarded in Maydh.