The Italian translation (La conquista mussulmana dell'Etiopia nel secolo XVI. Traduzione d'un manoscritto arabo con prefazione e note di Cesare Nerazzini, e una carta geografica del 1636 by Nerazzini, Cesare, ). This particular book is only available in http://www.hathitrust.org using a USA proxy ( only American citizens have an access to this digital library) access it via a usa proxy.
Translation Page 15.
Formation of a new army with Somali tribes and departure for Ethiopia. Battle of Demircore. - Return Muslim army in theirlands.
After a short time after his arrival in Harrar the Iman began to prepare for a new expedition, and sent a lot loot reported in Somali territory, writing them promptly they come to him. Somalis that Iman required. They were of the tribe of labarre and Gheri, and those of the tribe of Mattan and the tribe of Merrean. The Negus of Abyssinia had sent many shopkeepers with cargo of ivory, gold and sell it to civet in a Muslim country, and these dealers had sold everything and had come up to Aden and up to Mokalla or Makalla 'and now wanted to return to their country. But Iman had knowledge of what had them killed all, and he took them all they had. The tribes Somali Gica requests were on the street, and were very well armed and content for received gifts. The Abermagadli came the first of all, with their leader Akmed Gurei.
The Iman ordered accampassero in the country of Seem, and other tribes. He wanted them to stop in Harrar. The tribe of Merrean with his Chief Erabo greatly delayed his coming, and then 1 'Iman sent a courier to urge it. The head Erabo did start his tribe composed of 700 people on foot and 60 horse, but remained egh in their own territory. . "All this mass of people began to march towards Abyssinia, creating a huge mess in the street. each tribe . He had its own flag. Also he left the 'Iman and brought with him the'He also writes Mocòla, very important market in the Arab region of Hadramut or Hadramat.
So with further research I came upon the French version (Histoire de la conquète de l'Abyssinie, XVIe siècle
by 'Arabfaqīh, Aḥmad ibn 'abd al-Qādir, fl. 1543; Basset, René, 1855-1924 Published 1897 )
https://archive.org/details/histoiredelacon00bassgoog
and the nickname Gurey is also never applied to the Imam, it was again applied to the leader of the Habar Magaadle.
The below is a rough translation of the French by google translate :
12 HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF ABYSSINIE
Two messengers came to announce the arrival of Imam
Somali tribes and said, No one heard read your letter,
without eagerly obey God Most High; were answered
your call; we made many preparations ° and equipment
coats of mail to several rows; the tribes follow
each other, the troops succeed the troops, the people
the peoples.
The first tribe that happened was that the Habr Magadi, with
its leader Ahmed bin Husain Gouraï es Somâli. encamped
in a place called Qacha, in the upper part of the
Harar3 Valley; they showed their weapons and equipment
ment and mounted their horses; there were horsemen, and
What riders! infantry, and what foot! Their arrival caused great joy to the Imam; they made their way with
him; he welcomed them, gave them clothes and
food, showed their respects and donned their chief Ahmad
Gouraï a beautiful dress. After them went Tribe
Girri who were headed Mattan b. 'Uthman b. Khaled
Somali-es; they did see their weapons and equipment,
mounted on horseback, carrying their bows slung and
presented to Ahmed: it sent them forth to
Now as it was stated and argued before many years around this forum ( with the ardent Kombo-legist like Warsame and others ) the preponderance of evidence suggest that what the Somalis call Axmed Guray and what the Amxaara call Axmed Grang are one and the same but not the Imaam persay . Now the question is how this historic confusion began , was the Imam a left handed to begin with? was it due to them sharing a same common name? or better yet did the original Arabic manuscript ever refered to the Imaam as either been left handed at all or applied the nick " Guery" to the Imam. As far as I know in the Arabic manuscript which I read through its English translations ( 2005) refered to Axmed Gurey Ibun Xuseen as Axmed Girri ( as in giraffe) also the author translated the tribe Geri Koombe as Girri Koombe , that's also raises another question , was it Geri or Gurey?
Now its been a long time since I read classical Arabic , the old Arabic version is in online, what is needed is for those of you who have a crisp grasp of classical Arabic to quote the Arabic version where Axmed Gurey is mentioned and the Imaam and also the tribe Girri , the last to see how the Arabic version spelled Geri the tribe and Gurey the habit.
This a link to the original Arabic manuscript:
https://archive.org/details/futalabashahorc00argoog
Also its obvious from all three translations the confusion of the Mareexaan clan , with Yippirs , the Mareexaan with the Habar Magaadle and the Yippirs with the Habar Magaadle and even the leader Ahmed Gurey in few occasions is assigned the wrong clan. This confusion is from the original Arabic . Hence the confusion of Nuur Ibn Mujaahid with Nuur Ibnu Xuseen . The later been the brother of Axmed Gurey and the former supposedly a nephew of the Imam who supposedly wed his widow.
In the Italian translation the Majeerteen clan is mentioned:
The Majeerteen were not mentioned in the original text, the Italian translator arbitraly added " majeerteen" as the people of Maydh. This might disappoint out Kumbo nemesis but this is interesting fact. Also the tribe of Harti is questionable and one should check the original version if such tribe was mentioned also.Translations Page 24.
The Iman Akmed, mounted on horseback, ran before the file
of her and she prayed for God to give them patience and luck, and
he sent forth between the rows because the songsters incite to Combat
chin. He called his nephew with many "other leaders and delivered unto them
all the tribe of Harla with other tribes, placing them on the starboard side;
He puts the Somalis to the left under the command of Akmed Curi; he
the same was held at the center, having under him the whole people, and
choice courageous and 500 soldiers to guard his person. The sun was
Digia very high: the number of horses of the Muslims was 5 ^ 0
and soldiers on foot 1 2000; to the left were the Migiurtini and the
Somali Harla and Maid in number of 300, very good for
wield the sword; 400 were armed with arrows and had ordine to
pull from a standstill; the tribe of Ghiri had a lot of cavalry.
L 'Iman ordered to stand up quietly and then began to pray:
the same Kadi stepped off the mule and took sword and shield. a
Aììisa, famous for its strength, when he had seen the Christians,
He could not wait any longer, and two men had to hold it with
force but also the whole of Harla people were furious as Amsa.
Christians were divided into seven distributions, and their leader was king
Unassegged: he was with 400 soldiers and 400 left to right:
but for combat he ordered its 800 soldiers went
gU with others, and distributed Egyptian swords and iron armor. There
seventh part of the Christians was equal to any number of do muscles
lims: as an ox red leather, which has on one side a one white spot.
I would have posted all the relevant pages of both translations , but stupid somalinet forum doesn't allow more then 5 urls. I will post all relevant pages on the next post.
