This suggestion is also supported by the narration of ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar and analysis of Ibn Kathir which report that people called the region of Thamud...

Ethiopian Empire and the Dervish movement. The Dervishes, led by Sayyid Muḥammad ibn 'Abdallāh Hassan, stormed a military fort at the Somali city of Jigjiga in...

students from all over the region. Muslim scholars of that time, such as Ibn Sa'id, wrote about Barawa as "an Islamic island on the Somali coast." Al-Idrisi...

Naim [tr] Union and Progress Party Kurd Seyyid Talib ibn Rajab Independent Arab Zuheyrzade Abdullah Karataşzade Abdülvehap Pasha Turk (?) Müntefik Ferid...

defeat. During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War (1529–1559), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest...