Hargaya

Hargaya (Harari: ሀርጋየ Härgayä) was a historical Muslim state in present-day eastern Ethiopia.^[1][2] It was located east of the Awash River on the Harar plateau in Adal alongside Gidaya and Hubat states.^[3][4][5] It neighbored other polities in the medieval era including Ifat, Fedis, Mora and Biqulzar.^[6]

Location of Hargaya state in the middle ages

History

The people of Hargaya were reportedly a sub clan of the Harla people.^[7][8] In the fourteenth century Hargaya elected Imam Salih to battle the forces of Abyssinian emperor Amda Seyon.^[9]

During the Ethiopian-Adal war in the sixteenth century, the people of Hargaya fought in the army of Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi leader of Adal Sultanate.^[10] Researcher Mahdi Gadid states Hargaya alongside Gidaya domains were primarily inhabited by the Harari people before being assimilated by the Oromo and Somali people.^[11][12] Historian Merid Wolde Aregay deduced that the Hargaya state language was Harari.^[13] In the later half of the sixteenth century Hargaya state would be ravaged by the Oromo invasions.^[14][15]

References

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2. Marcus, Harold (22 February 2002). A History of Ethiopia. University of California Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780520925427.
3. Braukamper, Ulrich (2002). Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. Lit. p. 33. ISBN 9783825856717.
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. p. 711.
6. Hirsch, Bertrand (2020). "Le récit des guerres du roi ʿAmda Ṣeyon contre les sultanats islamiques, fiction épique du XVe siècle". Médiévales (79): 107. JSTOR 27092794.
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. (PDF). Jimma University. p. 1. Archived from the 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. Ethiopianist Notes. African Studies Center, Michigan State University. 1977. p. 24.
11. Gidaya. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
12. Ogot, Bethwell. Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. James Currey. p. 711.
13. Aregay, Merid. Political Geography of Ethiopia at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. p. 624.
14. Cerulli, Enrico. Islam yesterday and today. p. 178.
15. 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. JSTOR 25653296.