Arabic Media pushing Ahmad Gurey as the Somali imam that defended the prophets Tomb

[Khaem]

Some very big numbers in these historical videos .
But the one that got my attention was the recent TikTok of it

 

[Khaem]

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[Keyffe]

Many salty Ethiopians in the comments claiming the imam

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[Khaem]

Many salty Ethiopians in the comments claiming the imam

I honestly don’t know why they do it when the whole reason Ahmad Gurey is known is because he nearly wiped out Ethiopia.

 

[Idilinaa]

Many salty Ethiopians in the comments claiming the imam

Claiming he is Ethiopian is inaccurate as much as it is delusional. Historically, they referred to their enemies as Habash and identified themselves as distinct lowlanders, separate from the highlanders. You see it throughout Futuh.

Here’s a post I made a while back:

Harari didn't exist back then , no mentions are ever given to a group called Harari , its modern scholars making that up, same with Agrogoba. Afar was called Danakil lived further north around Eritrean coast, at the time they were in compliance with Christian Ethiopia and his clan was not mentioned like most non-clan leaders.
His army was just a collection of local Somali clans some mentioned without the occupational name ''Soomal''(pastoralists) and a handful of Arabs that joined for Jihad from abroad.

We can confidently say he was Somali, since we have a Portuguese commentary who were eyewitness and arrived at the area confirming it.

The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as narrated by Castanhoso​

''He was certainly not an Arab: probably he was a Somali, for we find him closely connected with many who were Somalis''

This is also to me reveals the true actors involved in the war from the Muslim side, because the only potentialities they saw of his ethnicity was either Arab or Somali, they ruled out Arabs though.

 

[Idilinaa]

I honestly don’t know why they do it when the whole reason Ahmad Gurey is known is because he nearly wiped out Ethiopia.

It's like the British claiming Napoleon as their own just because he invaded them completely ridiculous.

Ahmad Gurey is known precisely because he nearly wiped out Ethiopia, not because he was part of it.

 

[Saleh]

Mashallah great publicity. Much thanks to the noble righteous pious Arabs who produced this video even though they did not have to

 

[Idilinaa]

Mashallah great publicity. Much thanks to the noble righteous pious Arabs who produced this video even though they did not have to

Well, unlike armchair troll historians like you, they created this video because it highlights an important piece of Islamic history and honors him as a symbol of Muslim resistance.

His ethnic or national background is secondary to that purpose. This isn’t about promoting Somalis specifically.

 

[Keyffe]

Claiming he is Ethiopian is inaccurate as much as it is delusional. Historically, they referred to their enemies as Habash and identified themselves as distinct lowlanders, separate from the highlanders. You see it throughout Futuh.

Here’s a post I made a while back:

It's afars and oromos claiming him

 

[Saleh]

Well, unlike armchair troll historians like you, they created this video because it highlights an important piece of Islamic history and honors him as a symbol of Islamic resistance.


His ethnic or national background is secondary to that purpose. This isn’t about promoting Somalis specifically.

unnecessary slander wth

 

[NidarNidar]

unnecessary slander wth

You took it like a champ.

 

[Keep it a boqol]

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[Khaem]

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Their population now can fit in Mogadishu. Imagine how tiny and isolated they was during the Futuh as well. It’s crazy Walahi

 

[Khaem]

It's like the British claiming Napoleon as their own just because he invaded them completely ridiculous.

Ahmad Gurey is known precisely because he nearly wiped out Ethiopia, not because he was part of it.

Ethiopians are shameless as they were written in the futuh and all previous books. It shouldn’t have even been a debate but sadly Ethiopians love to pay and push blatantly false history online and in their books.

 

[Idilinaa]

Ethiopians are shameless as they were written in the futuh and all previous books. It shouldn’t have even been a debate but sadly Ethiopians love to pay and push blatantly false history online and in their books.

There's definitely a lot of contradiction in how some Ethiopians approach this history. On one hand, they try to rewrite or sanitize their role in the events of the Futuh, while on the other, many of their own narratives reveal a deep-rooted paranoia about Somalis especially when it comes to Imam Ahmed Gurey.

In fact, it’s gotten to the point where scholars have coined the term 'Ahmed Gragn Syndrome' to describe how obsessively some Ethiopian circles link Somalis to the Imam, often portraying him as a uniquely Somali threat in their collective memory. This paranoia says more about the unresolved trauma and insecurity in Ethiopian historiography than it does about actual Somali identity or political intent.

The irony is that in trying to erase or distort the truth, they end up reinforcing it through the very intensity of their denial.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Great news