went off in my head!!
It was the sign that said a QUESTION can now be asked that was missing relevant justification before
ARE T-CARRIERS IN FACT THE FABOLOUSLY DISAPPEARED FROM HISTORY (As a social group) SAHELIAN FUQARA WHO WERE HEAVILY PULLED TO THE RED SEA/DJIBOUTI/AFAR AREA BY THE OTTOMAN LANDING AND CAPTURE OF MASSAWA???
Everything makes sense
- In the 17th century the Ottomans capture Masawa for penetration into the interior. They decided not to after all and just declared a base called Habash Eyalet at the Masawa coast.
- There were no closer or warm ties that developed between the Eyalet and Harar.
- Similarly original Adal State groups with many geographical features named to them like Marehan seemed to have packed up and withdrew into the interior completely from present day Afar/Djibouti
- At the SAME TIME one of the most UNDERAPPRECIATED population movements in the history of East Africa was accurring overshadowed by the even greater Oromo population movement which had just taken place in Ethiopia
- This UNDERAPPRECIATED population movement is THE ENTIRE MIGRATION OF WAVES OF SAHALIAN FUQARAS FROM SUAKIN TO DARFUR TO CHAD CONNECTING EVEN ON THE WEST THROUGH THE SAHALIN CARAVAN ROUTES TO THE TUAREGS AND EVEN FULBE/FULANI
- Fuqara are what we know as XER, faqiir, caqiida...Sufi missionaries dotting kibuttz like settlements on oasis in the caravan route
- T is a feature that extends through out the trans Sahal all the way into even the Fulbe/Fulani
]*] When you look at the fact Dir, especially such prominent modern clans like CIISE and GUDABIIRSI inexplicable absence from Futuh or historical record during the pre-migration period
- And take into consideration Dir's religious and cultural historical role among Somalis, to this day being the institutions running Islamic missionaries (Xer) amd even that the religious title of FIQI is am adaptation of FUQARA
- In Conjunction with where the DIR HOMELAND IS, CENTERED AROUND THAT NORTHWESTERN MOST CORNER OF SOMALIS AT THE BAB EL MANDEB
- And the fact that they are overwhelming with T paternal origins which is so uniquely distinct from the majority of Somalis sharing E3b
- AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT ARE NOW SHARING IN SOME GROUPS A MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR IN THE 300-400 years ago range
My friends this now deserves being asked with sufficient scientific basis whether this is in fact a possible theory with groundbreaking importance for Somali and horn ethnography.
I AM EVEN WILLING TO QUESTION WHETHER DIR'S PLACE IN THE CLAN SYSTEM IS LESS EXPLAINED BY MYTHICAL ORIGINS STORIES----
----AND MORE EXPLAINED BY A RELIGIOUS ROLE BLESSING THE NEW XEER SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZATION FOLLOWING THE DECLINE AND MOVE AWAY FROM HARAR AND THE SOMALI DISPERSAL INTO THE EASTERN AND NORTHERN DESERTS.
Somalis must have been a very laangaab people before then.
