Gaturi people

This article is about the extinct group in Ethiopia. For the settlement in Kenya, see Gaturi.
Gaturi
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Gaturi
Religion
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]

According to sixteenth century Adal writer Arab Faqīh, 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

References

  1. ^ Østebø, Terje (30 September 2011). Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 46. ISBN 978-90-04-18478-7.
  2. ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
  3. ^ Aregay, Merid (1974). Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 624.
  4. ^ Abubaker, Abdulmalik. Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience (PDF). Haramaya University. p. 4.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia". CNN Indonesia.
  7. ^ WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-21.
  8. ^ Harar cultural page. Media and Communications Center. 2002. p. 501.
  9. ^ History of Harar (PDF). Harar Tourism Bureau. p. 57.
  10. ^ Feto, Jemal. A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ISLAMIZATION OFARSI OROMO: WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GADAB AREA,1935-2000 (PDF). Haramaya University. p. 30.
  11. ^ Østebø, Terje (17 April 2013). Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Springer. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-137-32209-8.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.