Somali copy of Futuux Al Xabesha at Jigjiga book fair
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CalmOne20####
Somaliland + Ogaden Heritage
This makes me proud to be part ogedani
Garaad diinle
Futuh al-habasha is one of a kind and a historical masterpiece in east africa. It offers us
an extremely rare insight on a crucial, transformational and a turning point of hisory for east
africa which involves east africa at large and somalis in particular.
This monuments work were writen durning the 16th century the era of Henry the 8th, Francis the first of france, protesten reformation, Martin luther and Gutenberg. It was the time of the sengoku jidai and characters such as Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Miyamoto Musashi and the legandary admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea. The time of the Mughal Empire and it's founder Bubur and also the last century of the maya, aztic and incan empires. The time of Sulaeiman the magnificent, Ibrahim the grand vizier and the barbarossa brothers with their legandary battle of preveza. The Imam is just as great and exceptional as any of these great men.
If you would tell any somali that is completely ignorant of futuh al-habash that the imam made it al the way to the nubian border and seized the nubian gold mines they would think your crazy. There is even hints that the imam wanted to go furthur into south sudan which would have introdust it to devolopment of it's rich arable land and offered it contact to the outside world propagating trade and enriching people in turn making east africa a mighty region in the world back then. It's a dutie for us to preserve translate and make this work accessibly for somalis so they might learn and understand their history.
an extremely rare insight on a crucial, transformational and a turning point of hisory for east
africa which involves east africa at large and somalis in particular.
This monuments work were writen durning the 16th century the era of Henry the 8th, Francis the first of france, protesten reformation, Martin luther and Gutenberg. It was the time of the sengoku jidai and characters such as Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Miyamoto Musashi and the legandary admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea. The time of the Mughal Empire and it's founder Bubur and also the last century of the maya, aztic and incan empires. The time of Sulaeiman the magnificent, Ibrahim the grand vizier and the barbarossa brothers with their legandary battle of preveza. The Imam is just as great and exceptional as any of these great men.
If you would tell any somali that is completely ignorant of futuh al-habash that the imam made it al the way to the nubian border and seized the nubian gold mines they would think your crazy. There is even hints that the imam wanted to go furthur into south sudan which would have introdust it to devolopment of it's rich arable land and offered it contact to the outside world propagating trade and enriching people in turn making east africa a mighty region in the world back then. It's a dutie for us to preserve translate and make this work accessibly for somalis so they might learn and understand their history.
Who other great Somalis where recorded too?
How far north did he reach?
How's the hints?
Garaad diinle
Most of them are mentioned by ba calawi and sometimes al-maqrizi and the likes.
The imam wasn't the first to go to bet amhara there were other walashama sultan that raided bet amhara my favourite sultan is jamal ad-din. He is mentioned in maqrizi and ba calawi. He recruited 5000 converted habasha and forced the unruly somalis to pay taxes. He fought the amhara and won many battles.
He reached up to the nubian bordars and perhpes a bit further. The book was writing after the imam and the portuguese but carab faqih didn't write about the portuguese and ended the book on a high note. What is funny is that the portuguese account start somewhat exactly where the futuh ended as if it was one book with two parts.
I don't remember but i had it writing down as a note. It really doesn't matter anyway since now it belongs to the what if realm.
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
Just amazing!
Why were we not mentioned in the Futuh?
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
The word 'Somali' is mentioned 100 times in the Futuh, hell some clans are even mentioned by (bastardized) name (eg: Marehan and Jidwaq soliders, a town called Dir, mentions of Yibir here and there) but to get to the point of the question, yes the Somalis are mentioned in the Futuh. Some major characters are Somali... like yk the Imam himself.
Who?
Dir was a river at that time
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
I was too quickly typing and it auto-corrected lol.
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
On pg 24 it is stated "They overlooked the infidels who had made their camp in a place called Dir." and the footnote on Dir states "Dir, a settlement which, according to Huntingford, may conceivably be modern Dire Dawä. Huntingford, Historical Geography of Ethiopia, p. 122." Dir might have been both a river and a settlement, tuulo size because Futuh says it's a place and not a town which is what they say abt all random villages (back then a area was named after the closest settlement, eg in Futuh they say 'Land of Hubat' and 'Land of Dawaro')
A river is a place too zxp also why would they need a camp if it's a town already?
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
Here it says otherwise. It's comparable to how 'Shabelle' is a region and a river, also with the US states of Missouri and Mississippi.
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
Bibliography even agrees with me!
I've also seen several towns on maps, but particularly if it's mentioned as a river, it's Wabi Dir, now called Awash.
Mohamedamiin120
Marxist-Leninist, OG.
Yeah the map at the start of the book in some versions has a town named 'Dir' in the area today's Diridhaba.
