Qallu
Sign in to saveWarra Qallu (Arabic: وارا قَلّو; also transliterated Warra Qallo, Warra Qalu, or Warra Qallu) refers to a historical population group mentioned in early Arabic manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated with the Awash River valley and the southeastern Ethiopian Highlands. The name is among the written attestations connected to the Oromo people, particularly the Afran Qallo branch.Qallus are the son of Afran QALLO (Maya)
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- Early Mentions
- Geography and Ethnohistorical Context
- Qallu history
- See also
- References
Warra Qallu (Arabic: وارا قَلّو; also transliterated Warra Qallo, Warra Qalu, or Warra Qallu) refers to a historical population group mentioned in early Arabic manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated with the Awash River valley and the southeastern Ethiopian Highlands. The name is among the written attestations connected to the Oromo people, particularly the Afran Qallo branch.Qallus are the son of Afran QALLO (Maya)
== Early Mentions == The earliest known reference to the Warra Qallu appears in Sīrat al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Qurashī al-Shādhilī al-Umawī, written by Abū al-ʿAbbās Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī in 828 AH / 1424–1425 CE. In his biography of the Sufi scholar Shaykh ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar, the author refers to a group called Warra Qallu, located along the Awash River and its upper basin.
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