Hadiyya (Ethiopia) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Braukämper, Ulrich
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Leiden
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Brill
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The Hadiyya of Ethiopia was a political entity belonging to the Muslim federation of Adal and inhabiting a large territory in southeastern Ethiopia between the seventh/thirteenth and the tenth/sixteenth centuries. The Hadiyya consisted of Cushitic- and Semitic-speaking ethnic groups who shared several cultural features, such as a strong Islamic influence and an agropastoralist economy. The groups that are presently labelled Hadiyya proper are part of the Highland East Cushitic cluster and are related linguistically to the Qabeena, Allaaba, Kambaata, Timbaaro, Sidaama, Gideʾo and Burji. In the 1990s