AdoonkaAlle
Ragna qowl baa xira, dumarna meher baa xira.
Yes those questions have everything to do with it, they're not irrelevant, if you had functioning braincells you would admit that you can't answer the questions instead of making a fuss out of it. No mention of the word somali in those sources . Manuscripts and oral history of Marka takes precedence over what those sources say as the manuscripts are written by the natives . Why is it that hawiyes don't have marka in their oral history or any of those 50 hut villages that were supposedly in the region
Two of the geographers contradicted eachother when mentioning the location of hawiyes base and those 50 hut villages. Either way Reer Marka have preserved their history and sources from marka are more than enough
They don't have any sort of relevancy to what those arab geographers stated at ALL! it's a given fact that they were muslims & as such had to have mosques, burial sites etc. We're talking about 900 yrs ago, whatever structures that were built at that time are either destroyed, built over, reused & whatnot as time passed on.
So you're an expert in the oral history of hawiye to conclude that they didn't have any presence in merka etc ? out of curiosity can you recall how many houses, villages your ancestors lived in let's say 200, 300, 500 yrs ago ?
Since you keep mentioning manuscripts, sources etc can you even cite one from 11-13 century about the presence of benadiri people in merka at that time ? do you have anything even prior to that time period ? if not then what in the world are you arguing about ?
Two of the geographers contradicted eachother when mentioning the location of hawiyes base and those 50 hut villages. Either way Reer Marka have preserved their history and sources from marka are more than enough
They don't contradict each other in fact both them state that hawiye lived on the bank of the river & it's ibn said who considered merca to be the capital of hawiye given their close proximity to the city.
If you want to argue otherwise at least back up your claims with something more substantial rather than engaging in historical revisionism & outright denial of facts simply because of your hatred of ethnic somalis.