I never denied these things existed in Somalia but moreso that they were implemented very inefficiently. The Somali adoption of the Arabic script was used solemnly and really only written for laws in the multiple city states, most literate Somalis would just write in plain Arabic - there is rarely any literature/manuscripts that attest to this and I doubt you could even list one from before the twentieth century.Come again? All of those things existed in Somalia too for centuries. We literally used the Arabic script since the Middle Ages. That's why I said the cultures are similar. The same level of monarchy, pastoral democracy, writing and technology existed to a degree that is often uncanny when I look back at the late medieval and early modern histories of both regions and yet Somalis did undeniably take a more impressively intellectual path than 90% of Arabia. Yemen is literally the only exception. Anyway, saxiib, there's a lot of weird self-hatred oozing off you and I'm not much interested in unpacking any of it. You have a good one, yeah?
Somali unity is a joke. Any form of ethnic nationalism was a result of colonialism and even then I would say isn't integrated fully with the amount of qabilists on this site alone.
"I look back at the late medieval and early modern histories of both regions and yet Somalis did undeniably take a more impressively intellectual path than 90% of Arabia."
This is intellectually dishonest and you know it.
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