Place · walled city, from the 16th c.

Harar

ہرر

The walled Muslim city of the Ethiopian highlands — one end of the sea route that carried people, goods and scholarship to the Deccan.

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The other shore

Harar was a centre of Islamic learning and trade in the Horn of Africa, walled in the sixteenth century and long a terminus for routes running inland and to the Red Sea coast.

It appears in this corpus for a specific reason: it is where Malik Ambar came from. The Deccan’s links to East Africa were not incidental, and the *Habshi* presence in western India is their durable trace.

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