Hassan_Enjamo

Hassan Enjamo

Hassan Enjamo

Leader of Hadiya (died 1889)

Hassan Enjamo was the chief of Hadiya in the nineteenth century.[1][2] He was the last Garad of Qabena before the Abyssinian invasion.[3]

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Early life

Born to a Hadiya Qabena chief father, Walga Mooe and a Gurage mother.[4]

Militant career

Imam Hassan's state dominated modern day southern Ethiopia in the 1800s through expansion towards all of Hadiya, Gurage and some parts of Oromo territory, Islamizing most of the population by 1876.[5]

For two years beginning from 1886, the attempted Abyssinian Shewa expansion led by Menelik II was pushed back by Hassan's militia.[6] Hassan had obtained the support of local Gurage, Wolane, Silt'e, Arsi Oromo and other Muslims in the region.[7][8] Several nobles from neighboring states such as the brother of Abba Jifar II the ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma backed Hassan's troops.[9] However Abba Jifar himself refused, replying to Hassan's request in joining him for jihad with the following: "I am not a soldier of holy wars and in my country there are no zawaya".[10]

It is believed his resistance was inspired by the Sudanese Mahdist State akin to that of the Talha Jafar-led Muslim revolt in Wollo.[11][12]

Death

Hassan's followers were finally defeated in 1889 by the Abyssinian forces led by Ras Gobana Dacche.[13] Although Hassan was able to flee to the Kingdom of Jimma following the battle, he would soon succumb to malaria in 1889 upon his return to Qabeena.[14]

References

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    Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part Ii)". Ethiopianist Notes. 1 (2). Michigan State University Press: 12. JSTOR 42731322.
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    Halabo, Temesgen (2023). "Politics of Identity and Minority Quest for Self-Rule in Federal Ethiopia: The Case Study of Kabena People in South Central Ethiopia". Journal of Asian and African Studies. SAGE journals. doi:10.1177/00219096231218441.
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    Meyer, Ronny. "The Qabena and the Wolane: Two peoples of the Gurage regionand their respective histories according to their own oral traditions" (PDF). Annales d'Ethiopie. XVII: 178.
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    Hasan Engamo. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
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    Østebø, Terje. Muslim Ethiopia The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 144. doi:10.1057/9781137322098_7.
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    Qabeena ethnography. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
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    Balisky, E. (September 2009). Wolaitta Evangelists A Study of Religious Innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937-1975. Pickwick Publications. p. 292. ISBN 978-1-60608-157-0.
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    Tibebu, Teshale (1995). The Making of Modern Ethiopia 1896-1974. Red Sea Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-56902-001-2.
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    Northeast African Studies Volume 9. African Studies Center, Michigan State University. 2002. p. 69.
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    Cerulli, Enrico. Folk-literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia. Peabody Museum of Harvard university.
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    Prunier, Gerard. L'Ethiopie contemporaine. Karthala Editions. p. 216.
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    Nida, Worku. Entrepreneurialism as a social movement: How the Gurage became successful entrepreneurs and what it says about identity in Ethiopia. p. 20. ProQuest 305335925 – via ProQuest.
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    Zewde, Bahru. Society, State, and History Selected Essays. Addis Ababa University Printing Press. p. 52.
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    Hasan Engamo. Encyclopedia Aethiopica.
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