Gaturi people explained

Group:Gaturi
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Languages:Gaturi
Religions:Pagan?, Islam

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] Historian Merid Wolde Aregay deduced that the Gaturi state language was Harari.[3]

The Harari chronicle states Abadir arrived at an Islamic region called Balad Gatur known later as Harar in the tenth or thirteenth century.[4] [5] In Harar, Abadir encountered the Gaturi alongside the Harla and Argobba people.[6] Gaturi is claimed by one source to be a Harla sub clan.[7] According to another Harari tradition seven clans and villages united against a common adversary, including Gaturi, to form Harar city state.[8]

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.[9] Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi designated Amir Husain al-Gaturi as governor of Dawaro region which was a border province of Abyssinia.[10]

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.[11] [12]

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.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Østebø . Terje . Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia . 30 September 2011 . BRILL . 46 . 978-90-04-18478-7 .
  2. Book: Hassan . Mohammed . Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 . University of London . 176 .
  3. Book: Aregay . Merid . Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century . 1974 . Accademia nazionale dei Lincei . 624 .
  4. Book: Abubaker . Abdulmalik . Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience . Haramaya University . 4 .
  5. Desplat . Patrick . The Articulation of Religious Identities and Their Boundaries in Ethiopia: Labelling Difference and Processes of Contextualization in Islam . Journal of Religion in Africa . 2005 . 35 . 4 . Brill . 491 . 10.1163/157006605774832171 . 27594354 .
  6. News: Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia . CNN Indonesia.
  7. Book: WONDIMU . ALEMAYEHU . A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE . Jimma University . 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421223316/https://repository.ju.edu.et/bitstream/handle/123456789/803/Edd.%20Ful.%20%20His.%20RES.%207%20Alemayehu%2020099.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . 2021-04-21 .
  8. Book: Harar cultural page . 2002 . Media and Communications Center . 501 .
  9. Book: History of Harar . Harar Tourism Bureau . 57 .
  10. Book: Feto . Jemal . A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ISLAMIZATION OFARSI OROMO: WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GADAB AREA,1935-2000 . Haramaya University . 30 .
  11. Book: Østebø . Terje . Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism . 17 April 2013 . Springer . 182 . 978-1-137-32209-8 .
  12. Braukämper . Ulrich . Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1) . Ethiopianist Notes . 1977 . 1 . 1 . Michigan State University Press . 37 . 42731359 .
  13. Book: Hassan . Mohammed . Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 . University of London . 176 .

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