Arab support played an instrumental role in helping the Ifat and Adal sultantes defeat Abyssinia in numerous military encounters. Arab preachers, musketeers, and mercenaries from Hadhramount and Hejaz flocked to Harar in large numbers. They had their greatest influence in Harar, by then an established Islamic center of learning and the only urban diffusion point for Islam in Adal during the medieval period.
They played a significant role in the battle of Shimbure Kure. The Arabs fueled the ideological base for Jihad against Abyssinia. The emir and Sheikhs of Mecca fully supported Imam Ahmed Jihad against Abyssinia, and they sought to send whatever assistance they could to Imam Ahmed. Imam Ahmed was really popular in Mecca and Yemen.
They played a significant role in the battle of Shimbure Kure. The Arabs fueled the ideological base for Jihad against Abyssinia. The emir and Sheikhs of Mecca fully supported Imam Ahmed Jihad against Abyssinia, and they sought to send whatever assistance they could to Imam Ahmed. Imam Ahmed was really popular in Mecca and Yemen.
