Jeberti people
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| Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula |
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Afar • Amhara • Arab • Beja • Bilen • Gurage • Oromo • Saho • Isaaq • Tigray • Tigre • Darod |
The Jeberti (also spelled Jabarti, Jaberti, Jebarti and Djeberti) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa, mainly Eritrea. They speak Tigrinya, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic branch.
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History [edit]
Islam was introduced to the Horn of Africa early on from the Arabian Peninsula, shortly after the hijra. In the late 800s, Al-Yaqubi wrote that Muslims were living along the northern Somali seaboard.[1] Among these early migrants was Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, the forefather of the Darod clan family.[2] Al-Maqrizi noted that a number of the Muslims settled in the Zeila-controlled Jabarta region, and from their slowly expanded into the hinterland.[3] The Jeberti in Eritrea trace descent from these early migrants. The term Jeberti in Eritrea and Ethiopia is also sometimes used generically to refer to all Muslim inhabitants of the highlands.[4]
Language [edit]
The Jeberti in Eritrea speak Tigrinya.[5] It belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.
Religion [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 25. Americana Corporation. 1965. p. 255.
- ^ Somaliland Society (1954). The Somaliland Journal, Volume 1, Issues 1-3. The Society. p. 85.
- ^ Tamrat, Taddesse (1972). Church and state in Ethiopia, 1270-1527. Clarendon Press. p. 124.
- ^ Mouton (2009). L'Homme: revue française d'anthropologie 9 (189): 59 [L'Homme: revue française d'anthropologie, Issue 189 L'Homme: revue française d'anthropologie, Issue 189]
|url=missing title (help). Retrieved 25 May 2013. - ^ Facts On File, Incorporated (2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East. Infobase Publishing. p. 336. ISBN 143812676X.
- ^ Trimingham, J (1965). Islam in Ethiopia. Frank Cass. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-7146-1731-8.
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