Northern Swordsman
Tawxiid Alle lahaw, Talo na Alle saaro.
The earliest documented consumption of coffee was in modern day Somalia Zeila, I’ll also address the fact that Ethiopians began drinking Coffee in the 19th century. Read more to find out ☕️
Coffee today is the most popular beverage in the world after water itself.
Coffee has an industry of half a Trillion dollars however the history of coffee has been deeply skewed.
In the early 1400s a Yemeni Sufi named Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhil visited the city of Zeila in which he resided with the King of Adal named Sa’adin II.
While in the royal courts of Sa’adin II the Yemeni traveler documented that the King of Adal was consuming coffee as a beverage.
The King of Adal Sa’adin II introduced and aquatinted the coffee beverage to the Yemeni traveler who himself was from Mokha.
The LA times later published an article about the origins of Coffee, in their article they referenced Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhil spreading Coffee, however they do not address the fact that it was the king of Adal Sa’adin who resided in Zeila that first aquatinted Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhil on coffee. Link below
The Coffee Revolution : Just a Cup Named Joe : . . . How It Came to Us
The early history of coffee-drinking is vague, but one thing is certain: The often-told tale of a goatherd named Kaldi, who first brewed coffee upon noticing that his goats were lively all night long after eating coffee berries, is a recent invention.
www.latimes.com
It’s also very key to note that the Yemeni Sufi traveler Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhil was from Mokha, as in this is where coffee become widespread & expanded, in which later a popular brand of coffee was named after the port city of Mokha named “Mocha”.
Mokha reached its height in exports due its trade in coffee, European companies maintained coffee factories In Mokha.
Captain Haines who was the colonial administrator in Yemen, documented the following
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘬𝘩𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘬𝘩𝘢 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢 ”
Somali merchants who imported coffee had a Navigation act which meant that Arab trading vassals were excluded from trading.
French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, illustrated Mokha trading quarters, which shows Somali merchants having their own trading quarters in Mokha along with Jewish traders.
At a 15th century archeological site coffee beans were found in northern Somalia, this suggests that the consumption of coffee as a beverage was widespread among Somalis.
The consumption of coffee was recently adopted by Ethiopians, they began drinking coffee at the 19th century.
The Orthodox Church prohibited drinking coffee as they believed drinking coffee was associated with muslims the Orthodox Church considered drinking coffee as an act of conversion to Islam
