Hargaya (Harari: ሀርጋየ Härgayä) was a historical Muslim state in present-day eastern Ethiopia.[1][2] It was located east of the Awash River on the Harar plateau in Adal alongside Gidaya and Hubat states.[3][4][5] It neighbored other polities in the medieval era including Ifat, Fedis, Mora and Biqulzar.[6]
History edit
The people of Hargaya were reportedly a sub clan of the Harla people.[7][8] In the fourteenth century Hargaya elected Imam Salih to battle the forces of Abyssinian emperor Amda Seyon I.[9]
During the Ethiopian-Adal war in the sixteenth century, the people of Hargaya fought in the army of Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi leader of Adal Sultanate.[10] Researcher Mahdi Gadid states Hargaya alongside Gidaya domains were primarily inhabited by the Harari people before being assimilated by the Oromo and Somali people.[11][12] Historian Merid Wolde Aregay deduced that the Hargaya state language was Harari.[13] In the later half of the sixteenth century Hargaya state would be ravaged by the Oromo invasions.[14][15]
References edit
- ^ Loimeier, Roman (5 June 2013). Muslim Societies in Africa A Historical Anthropology. Indiana University Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780253007971.
- ^ Marcus, Harold (22 February 2002). A History of Ethiopia. University of California Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780520925427.
- ^ Braukamper, Ulrich (2002). Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. Lit. p. 33. ISBN 9783825856717.
- ^ Tamrat, Tadesse. Church and state (PDF). University of London. p. 238.
- ^ Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 711.
- ^ Hirsch, Bertrand (2020). "Le récit des guerres du roi ʿAmda Ṣeyon contre les sultanats islamiques, fiction épique du XVe siècle". Médiévales (79): 107. JSTOR 27092794.
- ^ Mohammed, Ayantu. Mapping Historical Traces: Methogensis, Identity and the Representation of the Harela: A Historical and Anthropological Inquiry (PDF). Wollo University. p. 111.
- ^ WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-21.
- ^ Chekroun, Amelie. Le Futūḥ al-Ḥabaša Écriture de l'histoire, guerre et société dans le Bar Sa'ad ad-dīn. e l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. p. 198.
- ^ Ethiopianist Notes. African Studies Center, Michigan State University. 1977. p. 24.
- ^ Gidaya. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
- ^ Ogot, Bethwell. Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. James Currey. p. 711.
- ^ Aregay, Merid. Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 624.
- ^ Cerulli, Enrico. Islam yesterday and today. p. 178.
- ^ Zekaria, Ahmed (1997). "SOME NOTES ON THE ACCOUNT-BOOK OF AMĪR ʿABD AL-SHAKŪR B. YŪSUF (1783-1794) OF HARAR". Sudanic Africa. 8. Brill: 18. JSTOR 25653296.