بر سعد الدين
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@Garaad diinle Did coffee grow in Zaila and did it move from Zaila to Yemen?
Garaad diinle
No, coffee was grown in the interior in places such as hararghe and beyond. It was then carried by somali nomads in a qafilah from the interior to the coast. Coffee was consumed by both northern somalis and southern somalis and it was an important component of somali culture.
Somalis drank and eat coffee and they also used it as an oil to rub on their body for medicinal reasons. Somalis attributed all kinds of health benefits to coffee and pointed out it's properties of making people alert and sharp minded. I even remember if i'm not mistaken that coffee was used as a tribute in northern somalia. I also remember someone in somalia listed more the 20 benefits to drinking coffee, just goes to show how important it was in somali culture. Here is an exert of the southern somali tradition of coffee.
Of course what is coffee without halwa, somalis have also a long tradition of eating halwa and both halwa and coffee were sometimes consumed in special occasion.
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Hamzza
VIP
Emperor Zara Yaqub clearly recognizes the Muslim kingdoms of the Horn as foriegn non Abyssinian. Then an Ethiopian like @HabarSteven12 will come and try to convince you they were Habesha and it was all Ethiopian civil war.
The Arab fiqi who accompanied Imam Ahmed during all his military expeditions makes it clear that the "Sedentary agriculturalist population of harar provided both the leadership in the jihadic war and that they were the majority of the fighters." You lack historical knowledge of the Adal and Abyssinia conflict. Hit the books sxb.
Hamzza
VIP
Shihaabu diin's book is available. Quote where he said: "Sedentary agriculturalist population of harar provided both the leadership in the jihadic war and that they were the majority of the fighters"?
I don't remember him talking about the Socioeconomic conditions of the tribes involved in the Jihad. And what makes you think Somalis can't be Sedentary agriculturalists? You know the Somalis around Hararghe are majority farmers?
You could find it online. Please read the review of the conquest of Abyssinia 16th century futuh al habesh page 179. Somalis are predominantly nomads. Only the rahaweyne are farmers. Majority of somalis in hararghe are nomads. It's the oromos that are farmers.
300 harari impossible to be the majority !!!
Somali_patriotic
Everything unuka leh
Harla≠Harari
I don't care but they were never the majority
Somali_patriotic
Everything unuka leh
You should, Pro-claimed hararis weren't even mentioned once in The futuh al habesha
They trying to sneak themselves via the extinct tribe of harla
Oramos were the people who did the backstabbing against Somalis. They ransacked Harar after the death of Amiir Nuur (AHUN). Their conversion to Islam was later on. In the conquest of Abyssinia 16th century futuh al habesh document, the Somali tribes were mentioned. Find me where Oramo waging this jihad was mentioned.
Yes, coffee was at some point grown in the Golis mountains. Back then we used to receive more rainwater. Somali folklore clearly mentioned it. It was abandoned later on due to climate change and our land receiving less rain.
