Coffee is native to Muslim countries and traveled to Europe afterward. The word “coffee” is derived from the Arabic word, Qahwa. What! You don’t believe this. We tell you, why?
Although Coffee is one of the most popular beverages around the world, you may not see as many coffee bars and coffee lovers in any of Muslim countries as much you come across in America and Europe.
A dense sip from a hot cup of coffee takes you to a cafe in Spain or in a comfy flat of America, where any indigenous is drinking coffee to make his time full of energy and vigor. Popular coffee brands like “Nescafe” have stuck the coffee to Europeans again.
You might never think of a small town in an African Country Ethiopia, from where originally coffee was discovered and used first. You also might not notice the name of the best coffee in the world is “Arabica”.
Another surprise-what can be the link between Muslim saints and coffee. Let us “SPILL THE BEANS” for you that coffee was first discovered in a 9th century by a man named Kaldi, who observed that his goats got brisk after eating beans from a certain bush and then he tried the beans for him to stay awake and stimulated. Muslim saints used coffee to stay awake for long to offer their religious virtues. Sometimes they prescribed coffeeto inhale diseases and take coffee beans with them while traveling.
So, it introduced coffee in Yemen by the 14th and 15th centuries. In Yemen, coffee was prepared first time, after roasting and grinding coffee beans as we make it today. From Yemen, it continued its journey towards Cairo and Istanbul. The first-ever coffee bars were fabricated in Turkey and Egypt, and they started to serve coffee named "Qahwa". Muslims also used coffee during religious events such as before fasting, to stay active and awake in a day in those days.
saints played their role in spreading coffee worldwide. The Muslim saints advertised the journey of coffee throughout the world.
in the start. European liked the flavor of coffee drinking and coffee traveled far to Europe by the 17th century. The East India Company was also a big dealer of coffee beans.
“God introduced coffee for Muslims as a replacement of wine” few historians mentioned the popular statement about coffee from bars of Istanbul during the 15th century, in their journals.
Although Coffee is one of the most popular beverages around the world, you may not see as many coffee bars and coffee lovers in any of Muslim countries as much you come across in America and Europe.
A dense sip from a hot cup of coffee takes you to a cafe in Spain or in a comfy flat of America, where any indigenous is drinking coffee to make his time full of energy and vigor. Popular coffee brands like “Nescafe” have stuck the coffee to Europeans again.
You might never think of a small town in an African Country Ethiopia, from where originally coffee was discovered and used first. You also might not notice the name of the best coffee in the world is “Arabica”.
MUSLIM SAINTS ADVERTISED THE JOURNEY OF COFFEE
COFFEE IN AFRICA
Another surprise-what can be the link between Muslim saints and coffee. Let us “SPILL THE BEANS” for you that coffee was first discovered in a 9th century by a man named Kaldi, who observed that his goats got brisk after eating beans from a certain bush and then he tried the beans for him to stay awake and stimulated. Muslim saints used coffee to stay awake for long to offer their religious virtues. Sometimes they prescribed coffee
COFFEE IN ASIA
So, it introduced coffee in Yemen by the 14th and 15th centuries. In Yemen, coffee was prepared first time, after roasting and grinding coffee beans as we make it today. From Yemen, it continued its journey towards Cairo and Istanbul. The first-ever coffee bars were fabricated in Turkey and Egypt, and they started to serve coffee named "Qahwa". Muslims also used coffee during religious events such as before fasting, to stay active and awake in a day in those days.
COFFEE IN INDIA
It was the same time when a Muslim saint Baba Budan from India visited Mecca for pilgrimage and found the brown-black drink so refreshing. Babu Budan secretly brought or smuggled a few (seven) coffee seeds from Mocha with him on his way back and grew in his backyard in India. These were first-ever coffee plants in Chikmagalur, India. Gradually, coffee was being grown on a small scale across the hills, known as Baba Budan hills. We can say that MuslimCOFFEE IN EUROPE
Traders from Europe and Venetian merchants introduced the coffee in islands in Europe first. Coffee was a drink of wealthy peopleCOFFEE IN AMERICA
Americans were great lovers of tea first and arranged large tea parties. In the 17th century, President George puts heavy taxes on tea and people had to switch to coffee as a replacement. Coffee as a substitute for tea in America took the drink to the new horizons. Americans made the coffee a “beverage of a new civilized world” and coffee brands and bars seized the significant place to raise the coffee culture throughout the world of the 18th century.“
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT COFFEE
In the start, European people saw coffee as a suspicious drink because of its attachmentwith the Muslim world, but later a pop found the drink very soothing and coffee became the part of European beverages- Coffee bars became so popular in the Ottoman Empire that the Government had to ban coffee. At the start, these coffee bars were centers of gossip, poetry, and relaxation, but later they became the hub of sickening activities in Istanbul. King Murad put the death penalty for the users of coffee even.
- Muslim Ulemas had debated long on a comparison of wine and coffee, and at last, they declared coffee Halal.
- In Turkey and Egypt, they serve coffee with a glass of water and many European countries still follow this tradition.
- The people from Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Finland, and Sweden) consumed most coffee in the world. According to the report, a single native takes around 8 cups of coffee in a day to avoid the harsh cold.
- The most expensive coffee in the world is “KOPI LUWAK” which is made from beans that are extracted from pooh (stool) of a mammal cat in Indonesia. People pay up to $100 for one cup of KOPI LUWAK.