How did Islam reach Somalia?

[Journey.]

''She is Abyssinian and she is a sea-woman''

This line actually makes me even more certain they didn't go to axum but rather coastal area and interacted with coastal people.


They had pre-islamic trade links with Somali and Eritrean coast as well and there some pre-islamic refrences

Was Eritrea not part of Abyssinia? Wherever they travelled to/stayed, we know for certain those people were Christians and had churches.

 

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Was Eritrea not part of Abyssinia? Wherever they travelled to/stayed, we know for certain those people were Christians and had churches.

Eritrea was semi-autonomous and Axum was in larger parts landlocked, and had only limited access via adulis.

I noticed that in their invasion of Yemen they didn't have fleets and the Romans provided them with ships to carry their soldiers by sea from the distant in-lands to the west coast of Yemen.