Yeah this myth about them looked down on for working on metal and buildings is alot of hogwash
Who wrote the book? Name of the book?
Suleiman Al-Mahri Student of Ibn Majid
they probably because they had separated from the rest of Somalis.
There are other non Somalis in the horn of africa that experience the midgan situation and surprisingly they are known to be black smiths as well.
They are two totally different people's.
Al Mahri lived in the 16th century.
But he described them as a nation, as he mentions the peoples of East Africa from Zeila to Zanzibar
This book was Suleiman translation of Ibn Majid's writings and poems Ababn Majid born 1420And Suleiman Al-Mahri was born in 1470And Ibn Majid died in1500
he as well mentioned Zeila as a nation. We need to critics of each foreign traveler, their input could be misunderstood by them, or the locals spoke in phrases that they separated themselves from other clan that seems to outsiders as they are different ppl. Look at FKD section for example, an outsider will think that Maay ppl are different from ethnic Somalis, and HAG are their own nation some thing for Majeerteen and OGs. since some members like to talk about their clans as separate or that their clans should brake away.
Yes maybe If you are someone who doesn't know the area well But someone like Ibn Majid who described the mountains and even the wells and all the villages of the Somali coast cities And he used to frequent it every year He went south and across the Juba River He described them as Somalis And also when talking about them Mention a coastal city to them where it is now.
Could you provide a full translation? Somalis were first mentioned in an Ethiopian victory poem when the habashis defeated a group of somalis in battle near Zeila. The poem was composed in the early to mid 1400s. If this predates the Ethiopian poem this could be a very interesting discovery
Zeila became synonym with horn African that's why some may have zeila'i as a surname
Midgaan genetically are like other somalis but they may have some tiny foreign origin may suugo science guess is that they have ethio-semitic roots and were discriminated because if that. Western scholars mentioned a secret language spoken by them known as Af harlaad and tried to connect it to the harla people who were either a cushitic od semitic speaking population that was absorbed by northern somalis in the 1500s so it's around the time this book was written
The Mahris came for jihad .. I hope you show us your evidence about Saho and Bani Amer
