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Minneapolis, MN Katılım Kasım 2021
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Chronology of Local Coinage Production in the Horn of Africa. • Aksumite Empire: Coinage was minted from around 270 to 620 AD—a span of roughly 350 years. • Sultanate of Mogadishu: Coinage was minted from approximately 1300 to 1700 AD—a span of 400 years. • Awdal Sultanate (Bar Sa'ad Din): Coinage production likely coincided with the relocation of its capital to Harar in 1520—if not shortly after—and lasted until 1647, after which Harar broke off and formed the Emirate of Harar. • Emirate of Harar: Coinage continued to be minted from 1647 to 1887, a period of 240 years.
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@wazir2026 What's with the quotes on halal? Don't tell me your one of those people bro.
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@FergieBallFan Probably have close to 10% Southern Arabian with that percentage. I'm only at 1%
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@SiadBarrejr This ain't debate class bro, I'm just correcting a factual error of yours. You claimed that no historian ever considered the Somali peninsula as part of Al-Habasha, Al-Umari is a 14th century historian who literally did just that. I simply provided evidence to the contrary.
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Roble Barre@SiadBarrejr·
So your defense is that one Egyptian desk clerk who never visited the Horn of Africa was critiquing another desk clerk who never visited? Cool. Ibn Battuta actually went there. Ifat and Adal waged literal centuries of war AGAINST Abyssinia, they weren't Al-Habasha. Conquering parts of the Habasha highlands doesn't magically make those Somali polities 'Al-Habasha.' Invading a place doesn't make you that place. That’s like calling the British 'Indian' because they occupied Delhi. 🤦🏾
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Roble Barre@SiadBarrejr·
Early Arab geographers called it Bilad al-Barbar, explicitly distinguishing it from the Abyssinian highlands (Al-Habasha). They recognized al-Habasha (Abyssinia) as the Christian highlands inland, totally distinct from the coastal, Muslim populations of the Horn. Prominent Arab scholars like Al-Masudi, Ibn Hawqal, and Ibn Battuta explicitly referred to the Somali coast as Bilad al-Barbar (Land of the Berbers) and later as the Sultanates of Zeila or Mogadishu. The Ancient Greeks called the Somali coast Barbaria (read the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea) and Ibn batuta, Al-Masudi and Ibn Haqawi explicitly called it land of Berbers. Even earlier than that, Herodotus called it Macrobia. Imagine calling others 'historically illiterate' while getting your geography lessons from a literal ISIS propaganda shitpost map from like 2014.
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Somalia is in what the Greeks called Aethiopia, and what the Arabs called al-Habasha (Abyssinia). I laugh when Somalis cry everytime this map is posted, shows their historical illiteracy.

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Calm down nigga I'm not here to have a sparring match. All I pointed out was that Al-Habasha was at times used to describe Northeast Africa as a region. Btw, that Al-Qalqashandi snippet I shared was a critique of Al-Umari’s geographic description of the region, and it was noted that Al-Umari missed Muqdisho. Also, what would you consider Somali polities like Awfat and Bar Sa'ad Din that occupied well into the Ethiopian highlands? Want to see if you have the cognitive ability to consider edge cases.
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Roble Barre@SiadBarrejr·
The Arabic text you posted literally says Al-Umari made mistakes because he never actually visited the region. So your brilliant solution is to cite Al-Qalqashandi as an Egyptian scribe who also never visited the region? He was an armchair geographer who never left the levant/egypt and never went south of the Aswan. Meanwhile, Ibn Battuta actually went to Mogadishu in 1331 and explicitly classified it as Bilad al-Barbar 24 yrs before Al-Qalqashandi was even born. Make it make sense.
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HA📚@hornaristocrat·
While sailing along the coast of Madagascar, the Portuguese captain Bartolomeu Lopes reported ships from Barawa and Muqdisho regularly visiting small ports set up at various places along the island, where Muslim sheikhs procured around 3500 enslaved natives each year to convert to Islam. He described this as a grave danger and a disgrace to Christianity, and urged the Portuguese Crown to send an army from India to put an end to it.
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Crimes like this should result in automatic capital punishment. Absolute plagues on society. Life imprisonment just provides them free housing and food at the expense of the public.
Kate❤️‍🔥💕@katee_K1

A completely innocent 29-year-old man chased down and stabbed to death in broad daylight because some teenage gang members (Stokey16) got a text telling them to put “notches on your blade” or get kicked out. Random target. No reason. Just pure evil for clout. The part where Joshua collides with the little girl on roller skates while running for his life, then actually pauses to check if she’s okay before they catch up and stab him… that’s heartbreaking. He was trying to get into a shop for safety and still showed basic human decency in his final moments. Theo Momodu (who admitted it), Taylar Isaac, and David Kerrigan all got life sentences. Good. But it doesn’t bring Joshua back, and it doesn’t fix the broken culture that turns kids into killers over gang nonsense. Senseless waste of life. Rest in peace to Joshua White. This kind of street garbage needs to stop.

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Somali Visuals ☆@somalivisuals·
Puntland, Somalia
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@LohQore @SiadBarrejr One of my friends from middle school immigrated from there around that time. His family’s entire store was looted and burned to ashes. He was still proudly repping South Africa tho, we had to bully that out of him lol.
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Lo'Qore@LohQore·
@SiadBarrejr I'm aware. Have family who closed their store in SA around 2010. Brought me a suitcase of candy tho so I was kinda happy
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Lo'Qore@LohQore·
Interesting seeing the reaction of Somali nationalists to the racialised murder of Ethiopians in South Africa. Same guys who would post straight up gore from Ethiopian civil war to 'own le Xabash' are horrified by what they're seeing.
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Somali trading vessel off the coast of Mombasa, 1972
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The Walasma dynasty traces its lineage back to Aw-Barkhadle. This is like claiming ethnic Russians are subjects of the Russian Federation, and that it's actually ruled by Turkic people. Just low IQ copium. Btw Imam Ahmed lost to the Portuguese, not your W to claim as an Amhara, it's straight up stolen valor. Those same Portuguese went on to convert Gelawdewos to Catholicism, sparked a civil war, and then watched him get beheaded by Imam Ahmed’s successor, Emir Nur. They then continued to sit by and watch as your people got curb stomped by migrating Oromos, rather sad circumstances to boast about in my opinion.
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አብ@yaboyabz·
@maintainnin Somalis were subjects of the Adal Sultanate. It was ruled by Harari/Harla people. Islam was not introduced by Ahmad; it already existed, while you were still pagans, as a minority religion. Emperor Gelawdewos beheaded him.After his death, they reverted back to Christianity.
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@yaboyabz It was multi-ethnic in the sense that Somalis conquered Shewa and brought our superior mercantile-oriented, seafaring culture to isolated & impoverished peasants in the highlands. We are the reason that 20% of Amharas are still Muslim today, may you continue to seethe about that.
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አብ@yaboyabz·
@maintainnin Stop yapping you people didn’t even have a written system, which is fundamental to any civilization. The Adal Sultanate was multi-ethnic, not Somali. Mogadishu was significant mainly due to its location and was mainly Arab and Persian. Ifat/Zeila was under Ethiopian control.
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A backwater periphery people who were only brought to relevance in the 13th century after wholesale adoption of Tigrayan civilization, and whose kings roamed from village to village like nomads until the Portuguese compelled them to establish a city in the 17th century. Today they're being genocided in their own nation state and need an insurgency group to protect themselves. Such is the unenviable position of the Amhara nationalist.
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አብ@yaboyabz·
@maintainnin You were nomadic people and never had an empire of any worth.
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It’s a truly tragic case of Dutch disease. If oil revenue disappeared tomorrow, the Gulf countries would fall to the level of a middle-income economy overnight because they have virtually no sustainable non-oil industry. They don’t manufacture anything, their scientific output relative to GDP is pathetic, and they underinvest in their human capital which leaves them heavily reliant on foreign expertise in even the most basic sectors such as education and healthcare. Even the areas they’re trying to diversify into are unsophisticated low-value industries like tourism and esports. That’s why I get frustrated when I see impressionable Muslims look at these structurally shallow economies and think they’re the economic model to emulate. Saudi Arabia and Japan have a similar GDP per capita, but one is a single industry economy that just pulls things out of the ground and sells it, while the other is an advanced economy that has invested in sophisticated, capital-intensive industries such as semiconductors, aerospace and composites, automotive manufacturing, and shipbuilding. People used to accuse me of wanting to emulate the West when I said this, but the right development path only becomes more obvious over time.
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Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي@Awiabdi·
This always bothered me growing up in the Gulf. I’d look around at all the skyscrapers and swanky villa neighborhoods being built for expats and wonder how this could really be sustainable and good for the locals long-term. An economy utterly dependent on non-citizens, financialization and tourism. Thought maybe I was missing something the Sheikhs weren’t but if it was me I’d have focused much more on trying to green the deserts in the ways China has been successful in doing so. Build some form of an agricultural base, aim for food self sufficiency, try to develop local industries, invest in nuclear and renewable energy to achieve energy independence once the oil runs out someday and just keep the population small, sustainable and citizen at its core whilst weaning the people off government handouts and making them occupy every strata of society like in Oman. This, to me, seemed much sensible than whatever is going on.
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I used to argue with Gulf country glazers that Muslims shouldn't aspire to emulate the Gulf’s primitive extractive economic model, and that instead the future lay in industrialization & investment in R&D-intensive, high-margin industries. Looks like I'm finally vindicated.
World updates@itswpceo

🇹🇷Turkey OVERTAKES Indonesia to Become the WORLD’S LARGEST Muslim Economy. 🇹🇷Now Turkey is the Most Powerful Muslim Nation Both Economically AND Militarily. largest Muslim majority countries by GDP 🇹🇷 Turkey- $1.64 trillion 🇮🇩 Indonesia- $1.54 trillion 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia- $1.39 trillion 🇦🇪 UAE -$622 billion 🇲🇾 Malaysia- $516 billion 🇧🇩 Bangladesh- $511 billion 🇪🇬 Egypt- ~$430 billion 🇵🇰 Pakistan -~$408 billion 🇩🇿 Algeria- $317 billion 🇮🇷 Iran- $300 billion

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@CoreyWriting Other than the Ivy League part, the rest of his advice is sound. Community college to state university pipeline is the method. Nobody cares where you did your gen eds at so you might as well save the money.
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Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting·
I'm tired of billionaires giving bad advice on education. Community college is not the same as going to Harvard. Any billionaire gets that rich though luck. Smarts alone isn't enough, you need right circumstances. If you have a shot at Harvard, you better go if you can.
dank@cptdankkk

Mark Cuban says taking out a loan to go to college is the dumbest thing you can do "If you can't afford it you can't afford it. Don't take out a ton of loans and f#ck up your future" "I tell people go to community college. Accounting class is accounting class whether it's at a community college or at Harvard" "The delta between the most basic four year school and the best public universities is really small"

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