Author: Mohammed Abdulkadir & Abdurahman Abdulkadir
Year: 2025
This article re-examines recent claims about the Jadwal ash-Shāsh wa ash-Shāmī—a Harari compilation of Emirs lists—and the argument that Harar lacks documentary attestation before the sixteenth century. Such conclusions reflect a narrow textual minimalism that separates written sources from archaeology, linguistics, and oral history. READ MORE