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[image] 🧵 Few know that Zeyla wasn’t just a trading port, volunteers from the northern Somali coast fought alongside the Mamluk Sultanate against Crusader forces in Levant and even protecting the end of Red Sea from the crusaders. History hides gems in plain sight. Let's see here ⬇️

[image] Acheological findings of Vase sculpture probably coming from Arabian Peninsula in Hafun, Northern part of Somali peninsula, probably dated to early 2nd to 3rd century.

[image] 17th-19th century Matchlock guns used by various Sultanates of the Somali Peninsula. Matchlocks reached Somalia via Arab/Ottoman traders and Indian Ocean networks from the 16th-17th centuries. The Somali matchlock rifle (likely 18th century).

[image] The sultan of Muqdishu Abu Bakr ibn Shaikh Umar (d.1327) the same sultan who hosted Ibn Battuta, the sultan made a obligation in Saturdays to look out for the poor and the needy people in the city. Today we have poor people getting bulldozed from their homes الله المستعان

[image] 🧵 Thread: The Jabarti scholar from Zeyla, Somali Peninsula brought down a Frankish crusader spy in 1400s Cairo. Abd al-Salam al-Harq al-Jabarti. He was state diplomat and a secretary for the Mamluk Sultan al-Mu'yyad. ⬇️

[image] Illustrution pic of Sayyid Abdullahi Hassan (Mad Mullah) during the height of the war between the Dervishes and the colonialists (British)

[image] 🧵 From the shores of Zeila,Northern Somali Peninsula to the waters of Cyprus, the Zayla'is answered the call from Mamluk Sultan Baybars, carried by the islamic unity against the Crusaders. Sultan Baybars secretary Ibn Abd al-Ẓāhirs mentions below here ⬇️

[image] Abbasid historian & Geographer Al-Masūdi (d.985) mentioning the sailors departing from Oman to Gulf of Aden & Indian Ocean, sailing through the coast of Ras Hafun, Northern Somali Peninsula, it was so terrifying that they started to make supplication to Allah SWT He said:

[image] The same archeological British team during the 1980s found some medieval stone Mosque around the Cape Guardafai area, specifically in Ras Filuk (Cape of the Elephant) in the Bari Region The Mosque is probably dated back to early beginnings of Islam entering in the Horn of Africa

[image] Year 1700 A story where English crew men was sailing around the coast of Muqdishu, the Somali pirates from Muqdishu came and killed all of the British sailors and only left 1 alive, because he spoke Arabic (happened to be a Mullato Mullato guy). Assuming maybe he was a muslim

[image] 14th-century Maliki scholar Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Abd Al-Aziz al-Jabarti (763 AH/1363 CE). Roots from Zeyla, Northern Somali Peninsula. Muhammad was born in Medina, he rose to become the Chief head and executive Overseer of the Prophet's ﷺ Mosque Masjid al-Nabawi ⬇️

[image] A Muslim traveler from Delhi Sultanate known as 'al-Saghani' whom died in 650AH/1252AD said that people in Muqdishu called the black eared cat Caracal the name ''Gaduud'' and it's today called Gaduudane in the Somali language.

[image] 📜 Islamic Medieval geographer Al-Idrisi (d.1165) mentions trade caravans from the inland towns of of northern Somali Peninsula in the regions of Nugaal and Bari & the coastal towns of Zeyla and Berbera shipping gold ivory, camel to Aden and from there to Mecca. He says...

[image] 🧵 When the Portuguese tried to plunder Zeyla, Northern Somali Peninsula and met fierce resistance from the locals and the muslim merchants from Gujurat In 1537 (944 AH), a hostile alliance of Portuguese warships sailed toward the wealthy trading port of Zeyla.

[image] When Emir Nur Ibn Mujahid destroyed Gelawdewos's army at Fatagar despite being outnumbered and sacked his royal residence at Wej, the Emir returned to his capital of Harar not upon a a large stallion or another great horse which fit his stature but rather a humble donkey with a..

[image] Ayyubids invitation to Yemen of scholars from the Horn: When Salahu-Din's brother Turan Shah conquered the highlands of Yemen from the Zaydis and tightening control of the Red Sea, he established established religious centers and invited jurists from nearby neigbhours of Yemen..

[image] Ibn Battuta (d.1369) mentions he met a well known jurist from Zeyla, Northern Somali Peninsula called Abu'l Hasan al-Zayla'i, he was highly respected hajj guider and helped hajj pilgrims from Yemen and Horn of Africa to reach Mecca

[image] Abū al-Qāsim al-Zaylaʿī (died early 1100s) was a Hadith transmitter from Zeila in the northern Somali Peninsula. He later settled in Baghdad, where he became known for his scholarly circle and the many students who studied under him. Among his notable students was Muhammad..

[image] The Gujurati shields 🛡 used by Imam Ahmed and the Barr Saʿad dīn army Sihab ad-Din reports Imam Ahmed and his army using indian shields, they got access to it trough trade as canons were also bought later on from Zeyla along with 2 skilled indian handlers. And also..

[image] Archeological Islamic Vases coming from either Umayyad Caliphate or Abbasid Caliphate dating from 7th century to 10th century, as it was found in northern Somali Peninsula in 1980s.

[image] Medieval Egyptian Mamluk historian & geographer Al-Umāri (d.1349) mentions Bilad-al Zayla being one of the 7 kingdoms in the Horn of Africa. He adds that among the people in Levant and Egypt, the Zayla'is land was known as Bilad Al-Zayla. And they were very intelligent people.

[image] The Mamluk statesman Ali al-Jabarti from Northern Somali Peninsula (d.1492) was working as a tax collector & administrator in Mamluk Sultanate, he was also given the governorship over Rashid (Rosetta) and Alexandria by Sultan Qaitbay. Ali al-Jabarti's task was to inspect..

[image] 📜 ☪️Somali Sheikh Hussein from from 1300s, whom helped spread Islam through Southern Ethiopia There's a biography book of him Kitab rabi al-qulūb fi dhikr manāgib wa-fadā'il sayyidinā al-shaykh Nūr Husayn, a biography detailing the life of Sheikh Husayn

[image] Historian Mujir al-Din al-Ulāymi from Jerusalem (d.1521) mentions about among the Qūrah's (Quran reciters) and were one of the imams leading congregational prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was Sheikh Uthman Abu Umar al-Jabārti (d.1475). He had his roots from Zeyla

[image] Abd Allah al-Jabarti al-Zayla'i, (d.1388) was a scholar & jurist in Mamluk Sultanate from Zeyla, Northern Somali Peninsula He was one of the top secretary for the Mamluk Sultan Barquq. When Abd Allah died, he requested to be buried next to him in al Qarafa cemetery in Cairo.

[image] Tomb of the Sultan of Muqdishu from 1300s, as it says in Arabic: The Poor servant of Allah SWT died on 29 Safar of the year 766 (1364) on the first pic. The second pic says: In the name of the gracious and merciful God, the humble servant, hoping for the forgiveness of his...

[image] Adel Sultanate stretching all the way from borderlands of Nubia to Northern part of Somali peninsula, all the way to the east tip of the horn Cape Guardafai, (Bari region of Somalia)

[image] The coin of sultan of Muqdishu Abd Bakr ibn Muhammad, dated 722 AH/1322 AD. Hard to desribe what it says but it is most likely the testimony of faith in Islam. (Islam declaration of faith) ☪️

[image] The Persian Mathematican Al-Khwarizmi (d.850) made an early map of the Nile and Arabian Peninsula and some additional north of Somali Peninsula, and Indian Ocean. He adds the name for Cape Guardafai as "Madīnat at-tīb" also known as city of Myrr. 🔵 Cape Guardafai 🔴 Arabia