Author(s): Mordechai Abir
Language: English
Pages: 251
Published: 1980

This book "Ethiopia and the Red Sea" explores the Solomonic dynasty's rise and fall alongside Muslim-European rivalry in the region. The book challenges traditional views of the Oromo people, highlighting their advanced Gada system and resilience against Amharization. Abir connects the Oromo's 16th-century invasion to the weakening of the Amhara and the subsequent facilitation of Imam Ahmed Gragne's incursions. He argues that Gragne's jihads were motivated by Ethiopian threats to Muslim trade and fears of a Christian-European alliance, capitalizing on the Solomonic dynasty's internal weaknesses. The book analyzes the complex relationships between Christian Ethiopia, its Islamic neighbors, and the Oromo, emphasizing the Solomonic ruling class's struggles for survival and conquests.

Author(s): Ulrich Braukamper
Language: English
Pages: 79
Published: 1977
Source: Ethiopianist Notes, Vol. 1

These two combined articles are part of a larger collection of essays on Islamic history and culture in Southern Ethiopia. A book which discusses about the history of Islamic principalities in Southeast Ethiopia between the 13th and 16th centuries. It explores the Sultanates of Adal, Ifat, Hadiya, Dara, Arrababini etc.

Author(s): Glynn Flood's Work Journal and Letters from the Field, 1973-1975"
Language: English
Published by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in 2018.
Pages: 218

This book is a collection of Glynn Flood's field notes and letters from his research on the Afar people in Ethiopia. The book provides a detailed account of Flood's observations and experiences over three years, offering valuable insights into the social and cultural life of the Afar nomads. It includes a historical sketch of the Lower Awash Valley, work journals from 1973 to 1975, and letters to colleagues.

This social anthropological overview of the Somali people, their social institutions and their beliefs, based on first-hand research
(as well as documentary evidence) since the 1950s, is intended to provide a brief introduction to key features of Somali life past and present. Originally written in 1978, the text has been exhaustively revised and updated. It now deals at length with the political 
changes that have befallen Somalia since the overthrow of the dictator General Muhammad Siyad Barre and the state’s anarchic
collapse in 1990/91. Given the amount of external intervention since then, it is a depressing commentary on the quality of international engagement that so little of a worthwhile nature has been accomplished.
The most positive political achievement has taken place quite independently, without this costly and ineffective international
intervention. This is the formation and consolidation of the democratic state of Somaliland which dissolved its union with Somalia
in 1991.

For more than a hundred years there has been I32 discussion of the significance and purpose of the stone cairns which are distributed all over Somaliland and which are so striking a feature of the landscape, especially in otherwise arid and desolate areas.' In this article, in which I discuss some former Somali burial practices and report the results of the excavation of three cairns in the British Protectorate, I argue that some at least of these tumuli are of fairly recent construction and contain
Somali remains. The cairns, which are mounds of stones, vary considerably in height from about six to i8 feet and in diameter
from 12 to 60 feet. There are two main series. The first, which refer to as Series A and which is the most common, consists of small rough cairns usually not more than eight feet in height. In these graves the outer walls form a circular chamber which contains the corpse and which is roofed over with wood and branches and finally covered with the stones which form the top of the mound (fig. 4).
The larger Series B mounds are more carefully and elaborately constructed and appear to consist entirely of stones without internal wooden supports.

Author: Elisée Reclus
Published 1876
Pages: 608
Language: English

This book is volume ten of a series of books which are a detailed cultural, ethnological and topographical study of the inhabitants of the Earth. This volume deals with North-East Africa and includes illustrations and maps.

Author(s): Jeffrey M. Shaw
Language: English
Pages: 150
Year: 2018

In 1529, an army from the Sultanate of Adal in modern-day Somalia invaded neighboring Ethiopia. For the next fourteen years, the conflict ravaged Ethiopia, planting the seeds of enmity and mistrust in the Horn of Africa that resonate to this day.
The Ethiopian-Adal War: The Conquest of Abyssinia brings sixteenth-century Arab, Portuguese, and Ethiopian primary source material from this conflict to contemporary readers for the first time in the English language in a single volume. Situating the conflict into the wider struggle for maritime supremacy between the Portuguese and Ottoman Empires, readers will have the chance to learn about a little-known conflict which nearly resulted in the subjugation of Christian Ethiopia at the hands of Imam Gurey, the Sultan of Adal. Included are maps of the conflict’s major battles, never before seen in any publication.

Author(s): Enrico Cerulli
Translated by Emran M. Waber
Language: English
Pages: 506
Published 2013

This historical book translated by Emran M. Waber
2013, is a collection of essays by the author Enrico Cerulli that focus on Islam, its history, and its religious and political nature. The original collection is a historical texts written in Arabic mostly from Harar old archives, that provide valuable insights into the political, social, and economic life of Ethiopia, particularly during periods when significant interaction occurred between the Ethiopian region and the wider Islamic world, allowing researchers to study Ethiopian history through the lens of Arab perspectives and firsthand accounts.

Buuggan waxa qoray Sh Cabdirahman Sh Nuur Cabdillahi. Waxa u kaga sheekaynayaa taxanaha ugaasyadii Gadabuursi iyo datuurka ummadda Gadabuursi. Wuxuu sheekhu is dul taagay loolankii adkaa ee ka jiray geyigan ee u dhexeeyay soomaalida iyo xabashida iyo ugu dambayn gumaystihii iyo raadkii uu ku reebay ummadeena.