TheGaturi (Harari: ጋቱሪ), also spelled asGatouri are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present-day easternEthiopia.[1]
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Languages | |
| Gaturi | |
| Religion | |
| Pagan?, Islam |
History
editAccording toMohammed Hassen, the Gaturi were a Semitic-speaking people who resided in the region of mountKundudo andBabile, the region that formed part of the little principality ofDawaro.[2] HistorianMerid Wolde Aregay deduced that the Gatur state language wasHarari.[3]
The Harari chronicle statesAbadir arrived at an Islamic region called Balad Gatur known later asHarar in the tenth or thirteenth century.[4][5] In Harar, Abadir encountered the Gaturi alongside theHarla andArgobba 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]
According to sixteenth century Adal writerArab Faqīh, during theEthiopian-Adal war, one of the leaders of the Muslim forces ofMalassay was Amir Husain bin Abubaker al-Gaturi.[9][10]Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi designated Amir Husain al-Gaturi as governor ofDawaro region which was a border province of Abyssinia.[11]
Gaturi ceased to be mentioned in texts after the sixteenth century. Gaturi is today represented as a sub group of theHarari people and remains a Harari surname.[12][13]
Language
editThey spoke Gaturi language, possibly an extinctSouth Ethiopic grouping within theSemitic subfamily of theAfroasiatic languages and closely related toHarari andArgobba languages.[14]
See also
edit- Gafat people, an extinct ethnic group in western Ethiopia
References
edit- ^Østebø, Terje (30 September 2011).Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 46.ISBN 978-90-04-18478-7.
- ^Hassan, Mohammed.Oromo of Ethiopia 1500(PDF). University of London. p. 176.
- ^Aregay, Merid (1974).Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 624.
- ^Abubaker, Abdulmalik.Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience(PDF). Haramaya University. p. 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.35 (4). Brill: 491.doi:10.1163/157006605774832171.JSTOR 27594354.
- ^"Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia". CNN Indonesia.
- ^WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU.A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE(PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2021-04-21.
- ^Harar cultural page. Media and Communications Center. 2002. p. 501.
- ^Hassen, Mohammed.Reviewed Work: Futuh Al-Habaša: The Conquest of Abyssinia [16th Century] by Šihab ad-Din Ahmad bin Abd al-Qader bin Salem bin Utman. Tsehai Publishers. p. 185.JSTOR 27828848.
- ^History of Harar(PDF). Harar Tourism Bureau. p. 57.
- ^Feto, Jemal.A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ISLAMIZATION OFARSI OROMO: WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GADAB AREA,1935-2000(PDF). Haramaya University. p. 30.
- ^Østebø, Terje (17 April 2013).Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Springer. p. 182.ISBN 978-1-137-32209-8.
- ^Braukämper, Ulrich (1977)."Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1)".Ethiopianist Notes.1 (1). Michigan State University Press: 37.JSTOR 42731359.
- ^Hassan, Mohammed.Oromo of Ethiopia 1500(PDF). University of London. p. 176.