The humble Kunama, builders of Aksum

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

What do you think of him?

Mu'awiya's life and character is vastly overshadowed by the power struggle with 'Ali, which made him a villain to the Shi'a and Kharjites, and with his descendants' conflict with the 'Abbasids, which made him a villain to the Sunni as well.

None can deny that he was a competent and strong ruler, but anything else is impossible to determine, as how to seperate slander from truth 1400 years after the fact?

Mu'awwiya RA .
A personal hero of mine . He strengthened the ummah when it looked likely to collapse into civil strife and never-ending power-struggles. A political genius, the first machiavellan statesmen of the arabs.

[Navy9]

Do you have a link where I can read the whole book without any restrictions?

[James Dahl]

Do you have a link where I can read the whole book without any restrictions?

No, Google Books only puts online what the authors allow them to, to see more you have to buy the book.
I've been thinking of buying that book actually it's quite interesting.

[gurey25]

Let me understand what you mean james..

You are saying that palestinians aka caananites refugees from johsuas invasion, came down to eritrea?

[James Dahl]

Let me understand what you mean james..

You are saying that palestinians aka caananites refugees from johsuas invasion, came down to eritrea?

It's hard to say really, I just left that comment from Mu'awiya "as is". He might have meant that they are the same or a related tribe ("remnant" = "rest of"?) that Joshua defeated when he invaded Palestine.

We don't really know the early history of the Horn, so maybe Mu'awiya knew something we don't.

[Navy9]

I love reading stories and I was in middle of the destruction of Ad people and the pages went plank

Anyhow, at the beginning there is doubt if this Abid (the guy telling stories to Mu'awiya) existed and others claimed he did? Who to follow?

[gurey25]

I always assumed that the Saho/afar and the Agew were the first people in the horn...

are there other nilotics such as the kunama and the nara and what is the relationship between the Omotics
I believe they precede both the nilotes and the Kushites..