Gaturi
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Gaturi
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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 Hassen, 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 Balad Gatur 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 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

References

  1. ^ Østebø, Terje. Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 46.
  2. ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
  3. ^ Abubaker, Abdulmalik. Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience (PDF). Haramaya University. p. 4.
  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. Brill. 35 (4): 491. doi:10.1163/157006605774832171. JSTOR 27594354.
  5. ^ "Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia". CNN Indonesia.
  6. ^ WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-21.
  7. ^ Harar cultural page. Media and Communications Center. p. 501.
  8. ^ History of Harar (PDF). Harar Tourism Bureau. p. 57.
  9. ^ Feto, Jemal. A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ISLAMIZATION OFARSI OROMO: WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GADAB AREA,1935-2000. Haramaya University. p. 30.
  10. ^ Østebø, Terje. Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Springer. p. 182.
  11. ^ Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1)". Ethiopianist Notes. Michigan State University Press. 1 (1): 37. JSTOR 42731359.
  12. ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
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