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Period: Aug 30, 622 to Apr 2, 700
Islam in the Horn of Africa
The Muslim conquests began with the unification of Arabia by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) starting 622. HIstory of Islam in the Horn of Africa is as old as the religion itself. The early persecuted Muslims fled to the Axumite port City of Zeila in Modern Somali to seek protection from Quraish at the court of the Axumite Emperor in modern Ethiopia. Some of the Muslims that were granted protection are said to have settled in several parts of the Horn of Africa to promote the religion. -
Period: Apr 16, 700 to Oct 21, 1000
Somali's Peninsula
The victory of the Muslims over the Quraish in the 7th Century had a significant impact on Somali's merchants and sailors, as their Arab trading partners had now all adopted Islam and the major trading routes in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea now became part of a trade network known as Pax Islamica. Through commerce, Islam spread amongst the Somali population in the coastal cities of Somali. Instability in the Arabian peninsula saw several migrations of Arab families to Somali's coastal citie -
Period: Jan 14, 1000 to Jan 14, 1270
Somali
Mogadishu Mogadishu became the center of Islam on the East African coast, and Somali merchants established a colony in Mozambique to extract gold from the Monomopatan mines Monomopatan mines in Sofala Sofala.[18] In northern Somalia, Adal Adal was in its early stages a small trading community established by the newly-converted Horn African Muslim merchants, who were predominantly Somali Somali according to Arab Arab and Somali chronicles Somali chronicles. The century between 1150 and 1250 marke