The Habesha always ate raw meat "13th century"

[mohammdov]

Damn this is brutal but they most definitely were not a naked people, this is probably about pagan tribes

He means that they did not know fabrics. They wore animal skins

Source this

The book رسائل المقريزي
the chapter الالمام من بأرض الحبشة من ملوك الإسلام
P229

 

[Himmler]

He means that they did not know fabrics. They wore animal skins

Im pretty sure Ethiopia either produced or imported cotton for clothes at this point so I doubt this, if I can find the source Ill post it

The book رسائل المقريزي
the chapter الالمام من بأرض الحبشة من ملوك الإسلام
P229

Thanks, is there a pdf or no?

 

[Himmler]

Thanks, is there a pdf or no?

Don’t worry I found it

 

[Himmler]

This same source says the people of Zeila speak the Habesha language lol I would take everything in it with a grain of salt, Is this even a first hand account? It never says he went to Ethiopia or Somalia just that he heard reports from others. If the Somali in Zeila was strongly influenced by Arabic I could see it sounding superficially Ethio Semitic to an outsider

 

[awsaleban667]

Source this

Al Maqrizi Al-ilmām bi-akhbār man bi-arḍ al-Ḥubsh min mulūk al-Islām

 

[awsaleban667]

Damn this is brutal but they most definitely were not a naked people, this is probably about pagan tribes

This is literally talking about Dawit I son of Newaya Krestos. Which is why he is called Dawud ibn Sayf Ar’ad(Throne name of Newaya Krestos)

 

[awsaleban667]

This same source says the people of Zeila speak the Habesha language lol I would take everything in it with a grain of salt, Is this even a first hand account? It never says he went to Ethiopia or Somalia just that he heard reports from others. If the Somali in Zeila was strongly influenced by Arabic I could see it sounding superficially Ethio Semitic to an outsider

This is from Al Maqrizi not Al Umari. Two different people plus Al Umari never mentioned anything about no Ethio Semitic he just said a Habeshi language. Al Umari considered the entirety of the to be Bilād Al Hubsh. Al Umari even calls Mogadishu a Xabeshi city.

 

[Himmler]

This is literally talking about Dawit I son of Newaya Krestos. Which is why he is called Dawud ibn Sayf Ar’ad(Throne name of Newaya Krestos)

Ethiopian Christian’s were not a naked people either way and the source doesn’t state that

 

[awsaleban667]

This same source says the people of Zeila speak the Habesha language lol I would take everything in it with a grain of salt, Is this even a first hand account? It never says he went to Ethiopia or Somalia just that he heard reports from others. If the Somali in Zeila was strongly influenced by Arabic I could see it sounding superficially Ethio Semitic to an outsider

From the words Al Umari mentioned we already know he was talking about Somali being spoken in Zeila. By the way Al Umari said the people of Xabasha have over 100 languages but the reason he group them together was because he thought they were the same race.

He specifically calls the language spoke in Zayla the Zayla’i language(لغة الزيالعة)

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/al-umari-confirms-that-the-language-of-zayla-was-somali.161268/

 

[awsaleban667]

Ethiopian Christian’s were not a naked people either way and the source doesn’t state that

I didn’t say they were Naked I just said that it’s talking about Dawit I. Who the hell else would Dawud ibn Sayf Arcad be.