Gaturi people

Gaturi (also known as Gatouri) are an extinct ethnic group that once inhabited present-day eastern Ethiopia.[1]

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

History

According to Mohammed Hassan, the Gaturi were a Semitic-speaking people who resided in the state of Dawaro which was between mount Kundudo and Babile.[2]

The Harari chronicle states Abadir arrived at an Islamic region called Bandar Gatur known later as Harar in the tenth or thirteenth century.[3][4] In Harar, Abadir encountered the Gaturi alongside the Harla and Argobba people.[5] Gaturi is claimed by one source to be a Harla sub clan.[6] According to another Harari tradition seven clans and villages united against a common adversary including Gaturi to form Harar city-state.[7]

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

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 common Harari surname.[10][11]

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.[12]

See also

References
  1. Østebø, Terje. Localising Salafism Religious Change Among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. BRILL. p. 46.
  2. Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
  3. Abubaker, Abdulmalik. Trade For Peace Not For Conflict: Harari Experience (PDF). Haramaya University. p. 4.
  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. Brill. 35 (4): 491. doi:10.1163/157006605774832171. JSTOR 27594354.
  5. "Kopi Harar, Legenda Kedamaian yang Dicari Penyair Dunia". CNN Indonesia.
  6. WONDIMU, ALEMAYEHU. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HARARI PEOPLE (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1.
  7. Harar cultural page. Media and Communications Center. p. 501.
  8. History of Harar (PDF). Harar Tourism Bureau. p. 57.
  9. Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part Ii)". Ethiopianist Notes. Michigan State University Press. 1 (2): 18. JSTOR 42731322.
  10. Østebø, Terje. Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Springer.
  11. Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1)". Ethiopianist Notes. Michigan State University Press. 1 (1): 37. JSTOR 42731359.
  12. Hassan, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia 1500 (PDF). University of London. p. 176.
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