Shaykh Shādhilī
Muslim holy man
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Mocha’s founding
- In Mocha
…with the Muslim holy man Shaykh Shādhilī, who is supposed to have introduced coffee drinking to Arabia. An important trade centre through the 17th century, it was regularly visited by Indian traders, who traded finished metal products for Yemeni coffee and myrrh. It also dealt with Egyptian merchants, who sailed…
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