New post on my history blog "When Himyar Ruled the Banaadir"

[James Dahl]

http://historyinthehorn.wordpress.com/2 ... e-banadir/

[RovingMadness]

What are your thoughts on the Yacquub dynasty and how come you don't source your claims?

[James Dahl]

What are your thoughts on the Yacquub dynasty and how come you don't source your claims?

The Yacquub dynasty is a post for another day

One of the sources is in the post of course. The history of Mogadishu for the most part is recorded in traditions rather than texts, such as this one that a friend of mine translated:
http://andaasyare.8k.com/index_1.html
You can find many other versions of such histories:
http://dayahnet.com/2009/07/20/taariikh ... -muqdisho/
http://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqdisho
http://soomaaliya-news.blogspot.com/


Then the Himyar dynasty genealogy and history this book is an invaluable resource:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Sf4-kkJ ... &q&f=false

[Abdihaliim]

When Himyar Ruled the Banaadir?" They never ruled


"The Himyarite Kingdom was the dominant polity in Arabia until 525 AD. Its economy was based on agriculture, and foreign trade centered on the export of frankincense and myrrh. For many years, the kingdom was also the major intermediary linking East Africa and the Mediterranean world. This trade largely consisted of exporting ivory from Africa to be sold in the Roman Empire. Ships from Himyar regularly traveled the East African coast, and the state also exerted a large amount of Influence both cultural religious and political to the trading cities of East Africa whilst the cities of East Africa remained independent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom

[HippoTT]

Don't bother with this pseudo-historian, without a single qualification or peer-reviewed paper to his name, he never states his sources. No scholar everr makes the stupid claim of Himyar ruling benadir, Azania was never a single region but was used for different places at different times. The only area ever remotely ruled by Arabs in the Periplus is Raphta and that is somewhere in Tanzania. The Somali coast had well-connected city-states of its own.

NONE OF WHICH WERE UNDER HIMYAR DOMINATION!!