Gaturi people
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The Gaturi (Harari: ጋቱሪ), also spelled as Gatouri are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present-day eastern Ethiopia.[1]
History
According to Mohammed Hassan, the Gaturi were a Semitic-speaking people who resided in the region of mount Kundudo and Babile, the region that formed part of the little principality of Dawaro.[2]
The Harari chronicle states Abadir arrived at an Islamic region called Bandar Gaturi known later as Harar in the tenth or thirteenth century.[3][4] In Harar, Abadir encountered the Gaturi alongside the Harla and Argobba people.[5] Gaturi is claimed by one source to be a Harla sub clan.[6] According to another Harari tradition seven clans and villages united against a common adversary including Gaturi to form Harar city-state.[7]
In the middle ages during the Ethiopian-Adal war, one of the leaders of the Muslim forces of Malassay was Amir Husain bin Abubaker al-Gaturi.[8] Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi designated Amir Husain al-Gaturi as governor of Dawaro region which Ulrich Braukämper states was a border province of Abyssinia.[9]
Gaturi ceased to be mentioned in texts after the sixteenth century. Gaturi is today represented as a sub group of the Harari people and remains a Harari surname.[10][11]
Language
They spoke Gaturi language, possibly an extinct South Ethiopic grouping within the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and Argobba languages.[12]
See also
- Gafat people, an extinct ethnic group in western Ethiopia
References
- ^ Østebø, Terje. Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 46.
- ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
- ^ Abubaker, Abdulmalik. Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience (PDF). Haramaya University. p. 4.
- ^ Desplat, Patrick (2005). "The Articulation of Religious Identities and Their Boundaries in Ethiopia: Labelling Difference and Processes of Contextualization in Islam". Journal of Religion in Africa. 35 (4). Brill: 491. doi:10.1163/157006605774832171. JSTOR 27594354.
- ^ "Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia". CNN Indonesia.
- ^ WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-21.
- ^ Harar cultural page. Media and Communications Center. p. 501.
- ^ History of Harar (PDF). Harar Tourism Bureau. p. 57.
- ^ Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part Ii)". Ethiopianist Notes. 1 (2). Michigan State University Press: 18. JSTOR 42731322.
- ^ Østebø, Terje. Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Springer. p. 182.
- ^ Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1)". Ethiopianist Notes. 1 (1). Michigan State University Press: 37. JSTOR 42731359.
- ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.