Hargaya(Harari:ሀርጋየHärgayä) was a historicalMuslimstate in present-day easternEthiopia.[1][2]It was located east of theAwash Riveron theHararplateau inAdalalongsideGidayaandHubatstates.[3][4][5]It neighbored other polities in the medieval era includingIfat,Fedis,Mora,BiqulzarandKwelgora.[6]

Location of Hargaya state in the middle ages

History

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The people of Hargaya were reportedly a sub clan of theHarla people.[7][8]In the fourteenth century Hargaya elected ImamSalihto battle the forces of Abyssinian emperorAmda Seyon I.[9]According to the fifteenth century emperor of Ethiopia'sBaeda Maryam Ichronicle, Hargaya's ruler took the titleGarad.[10]

According to sixteenth century Adal writerArab Faqīh,the people of Hargaya fought in the army ofAhmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazileader ofAdal Sultanate.[11]Researcher Mahdi Gadid states Hargaya alongsideGidayadomains were primarily inhabited by theHarari peoplebefore being assimilated by theOromoandSomali people.[12][13]HistorianMerid Wolde Aregaydeduced that the Hargaya state language wasHarari.[14]In the later half of the sixteenth century Hargaya state would be ravaged by theOromo invasions.[15][16]

References

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  1. ^Loimeier, Roman (5 June 2013).Muslim Societies in Africa A Historical Anthropology.Indiana University Press. p. 184.ISBN9780253007971.
  2. ^Marcus, Harold (22 February 2002).A History of Ethiopia.University of California Press. p. 272.ISBN9780520925427.
  3. ^Braukamper, Ulrich (2002).Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia.Lit. p. 33.ISBN9783825856717.
  4. ^Tamrat, Tadesse.Church and state(PDF).University of London. p. 238.
  5. ^Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.University of California Press. 1992. p. 711.ISBN978-0-435-94811-5.
  6. ^Hirsch, Bertrand (2020)."Le récit des guerres du roi ʿAmda Ṣeyon contre les sultanats islamiques, fiction épique du XVe siècle".Médiévales(79): 107.JSTOR27092794.
  7. ^Mohammed, Ayantu.Mapping Historical Traces: Methogensis, Identity and the Representation of the Harela: A Historical and Anthropological Inquiry(PDF).Wollo University. p. 111.
  8. ^WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU.A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE(PDF).Jimma University. p. 1. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2021-04-21.
  9. ^Chekroun, Amelie.Le Futūḥ al-Ḥabaša Écriture de l'histoire, guerre et société dans le Bar Sa'ad ad-dīn.e l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. p. 198.
  10. ^Garad.Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  11. ^Ethiopianist Notes.African Studies Center, Michigan State University. 1977. p. 24.
  12. ^Gidaya.Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
  13. ^Ogot, Bethwell (1992).Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.James Currey. p. 711.ISBN978-0-435-94811-5.
  14. ^Aregay, Merid (1974).Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century.Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 624.
  15. ^Cerulli, Enrico.Islam yesterday and today.p. 178.
  16. ^Zekaria, Ahmed (1997)."SOME NOTES ON THE ACCOUNT-BOOK OF AMĪR ʿABD AL-SHAKŪR B. YŪSUF (1783-1794) OF HARAR".Sudanic Africa.8.Brill: 18.JSTOR25653296.