Wadde: God as Motion in Pre-Islamic Somali Thought
From the root wad — motion, the heart, the turning of seasons — to the Arabic و-د-د and the divine as the driving force behind all things.
SOMALI CORNERHOME OF SOMALI HISTORY
SOMALI CORNERHOME OF SOMALI HISTORY
Long-form essays on Somali history, etymology and the Islamic Horn. Each piece can be read, or listened to in my own voice, and members can open the research notes behind it.
From the root wad — motion, the heart, the turning of seasons — to the Arabic و-د-د and the divine as the driving force behind all things.
Every conclusion has a trail — source scans, translation drafts, dead ends and the reasoning between them. That lives in the research notes.
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