Somali calendar names in a tomb in Mogadishu

[ibrahym]

1365 AD
766 AH

Source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://arcadia.sba.uniroma3.it/bitstream/2307/1510/1/Cerulli.%20Somalia%20I%20%28Storia%20della%20Somalia_%20L%27Islam%20in%20Somalia_%20Il%20libro%20degli%20zengi%29.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj-vtDN472HAxVHSfEDHag8BzcQFnoECCkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2IgOrAZWmwODNH2W0B73Q9

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Somalia.html%3Fid%3DVTnUuwEACAAJ&ved=2ahUKEwjByd2P5b2HAxWDRvEDHfXHBPw4ChAWegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw2gpjnJMym9c-9_P_UaclJr

 

[yyuusro]

whys that good? arent they meant to know the calander

 

[Som]

whys that good? arent they meant to know the calander

Some people including the Italian author of this book overestimate Arab influence in the history of Mogadishu and it's founding. Some of the tombs mentioned were probably Arab men or arabized men , the fact even Arabs used Somali months alongside the hijri calendar shows how Arabs were a minority who was already becoming somalized