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Coffee has its history as far back as the 9th century. It is thought to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and spread to the rest of the world via Egypt and Europe.The word coffee is derived from the Arabic word Qah'wa over Ottoman Turkish Kahve, which originally meant wine or other intoxicating liquors. Partly due to the Islamic prohibition on drinking wine, preparing and drinking coffee became an important social ritual. The effects of coffee were such that it became forbidden among orthodox and conservative imams in Mecca at 1511 and at Cairo in 1532 by a theological court. In Egypt, coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee berries were sacked. But the product's popularity, particularly among intellectuals, led to the reversal of this decision in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Selim I. In the 15th century, Muslims introduced coffee in Persia, Egypt, northern Africa and Turkey, where the first cafeteria, Kiva Han, opened in 1475 in Constantinople.

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2006-10-03 22:20:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nature

2006-10-03 22:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Admiral Starbuck

2006-10-03 22:26:16 · answer #3 · answered by JoyDivision 3 · 0 0

I think it was invented in Yemen. They have a story that a shephard was breeding his sheeps & goats. They eat from the tree of coffee. He noticed that when they don't go to the field, they seem very tired and passive. When they go to the field and eat from that tree they are well. So he started to eat from the tree. Then he noticed the change. So drinking coffee is discovered from this date and peole started drinking it in Arabia, Ethiopia,..etc.

2006-10-03 22:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by aahamed24 3 · 0 0

The cubans!Hollywood

2006-10-03 22:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by hollywood 5 · 0 0

God

2006-10-03 22:28:13 · answer #6 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0 0

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