Dr Amin Tawfiq Tibi, a Palestinian university professor at Oxford, said the relations between Arabia and Abyssinia before Islam that the reason for the name Abyssinia is due to the Hadhrami tribe (Mahra Habasht), the largest tribe that migrated to this region following the collapse of the Marib Dam and the Marib Dam. They migrated because their crops that come from this place ended for this year and became in the country attracting, so some tribes decided to migrate, including this tribe to the Afrikan century and was, along with it (the Gizans / Ajaz) from Tihama. They were engaged in trade, so they were called (Taqrai) (Tagrai), and they founded the powerful Aksum Kingdom later, which is the alliance of the (Mahra Abyssinians), who are now (Amhara / Abyssinians), and the Gizans, to whom the Ge'ez language is attributed with its three branches (Amharic, Tugrai, and Taqri).
Dr Jalaluddin, the Eritrean Dr Jalaluddin, says in his lecture: Abyssinia came from the name of a Himyarite tribe called Habasht that migrated from the south of the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) to the Horn of Africa.
The French orientalist Droz says in his research on Abyssinia:
I studied the Abyssinian inscriptions that I found and included the word Habasht, and it seemed to me that this Arab tribe migrated in the fifth century BC for a long time from the south of the Arabian Peninsula to the African century and established a kingdom and the metropolis of this kingdom is Axum, which is located in northern Ethiopia in an area known as the region of Tigray, and Axum is a well-known archaeological city in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
Dr Christian Robin, archaeologist and founder of the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences, says in the book Ancient Trade Routes (p118) In Ethiopia, the use of the Sabaean alphabet began at a very early date and was used not only by the Sabaeans living in this country, but also by the local population. The alphabet developed independently and generated a variety of local writings and from these new forms arose the alphabet of the Kingdom of Aksum.
The Byzantine orientalist Stephanus, one of the ancient geographers, says:He quoted a passage from the Book of Arbaka by Uranius, in which he recognised the Abyssinians as being of Arab origin, coming from a region beyond Sheba and Hadramawt
Al-Hamdani says in his book Al-Ekkalil that Abraha al-Qayl was called Abba Yexum, and this name did not remain in Himyar, including Kisim, Kasim, Axum bin al-Aswad bin Yasir al-Manakhi and many others, and Axum the son of Dhi Manakhi.
Al-Akwa, who is the editor of al-Hamdani's books, says: Perhaps Axum, known in Abyssinia, was named after one of the branches of these Yemeni tribes and tribes.
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There are hundreds of sources proving this.
Prepared by: Mr Abdulkarim Almawri