Featured

Bibliography - Update January 2026

 Allen, Stewart Lee. The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee. Soho, 1999.

Amenu, Teshome. “The Rise and Expansion of Islam in Bale of Ethiopia: Socio-Cultural and Political Factors and Inter-Religious Relations.” The Norwegian Teacher Academy Department of Philosophy of Religious Education, 2008.

Angelico, Irene Lilienheim, director. Black Coffee. National Film Board of Canada, 2007.

Anthony, F., et al. “The Origin of Cultivated Coffea Arabica L. Varieties Revealed by AFLP and SSR Markers.” Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol. 104, no. 5, 8 Feb. 2002, pp. 894–900. doi:10.1007/s00122-001-0798-8.

Aregay, Merid W. “The Early History of Ethiopia's Coffee Trade and the Rise of Shawa.” The Journal of African History, vol. 29, no. 1, 1988, pp. 19–25. doi:10.1017/s0021853700035969.

Aregay, Merid W. “The Early History of Ethiopia’s Coffee Trade and the Rise of Shawa.” The Journal of African History, vol. 29, no. 1, 1988, pp. 19–25. Cambridge University Press, www.jstor.org/stable/182236.

Bacha, Ayehu, et al. “Buna Qalaa Ritual of the Boorana Oromo.” Üniversitepark Bülten, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 26–39. doi:10.22521/unibulletin.2018.71.3.

Bacha, Ayehu, et al. “Coffee Ceremony of the Macha Oromo in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia.” International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 14–28.

Barton, Loukas. “First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by P. S. Bellwood, and: The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics Ed. by L. Sagart, R. Blench, and A. Sanchez-Mazas, and: The Origins of Pottery and Agriculture Ed. by Y. Yasuda.” Asian Perspectives, vol. 51, no. 2, 2014, pp. 321–333. doi:10.1353/asi.2014.0000.

Başarır, Selen. A Comparative Study on Design of Turkish Coffee Brewing Machines for Self-Service: “Telve,” “Kahwe,” and “Gondol.” Master’s thesis, İzmir Institute of Technology, 2005.

Beeley, Brian W. “The Turkish Village Coffeehouse as a Social Institution.” Geographical Review, vol. 60, no. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 475–493. American Geographical Society, www.jstor.org/stable/213769.

Crawford, John. “History of Coffee.” Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 15, no. 1, Apr. 1852, pp. 50–58. doi:10.2307/2338310.

Çizakça, Defne. “Long Nights in Coffeehouses: Ottoman Storytelling in Its Urban Locales.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/11811289/Long_Nights_in_Coffeehouses_Ottoman_Storytelling_in_its_Urban_Locales.

Harl, Kenneth W. “Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor.” The Great Courses Series.

Harl, Kenneth W. “The Ottoman Empire.” The Great Courses Series.

Hassen, Mohammed. The Oromo of Ethiopia, 1500–1850: With Special Emphasis on the Gibe Region. University of London, 1983.

Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East. University of Washington Press, 1985.

Hattox, Ralph S. “Coffee Houses and Urban Society in the Mamluk and Ottoman Lands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.” Princeton University, University Microfilms International, 1982, pp. 1–222.

Kaya, Mustafa Ismail. “Shops and Shopkeepers in the Istanbul İhtisab Register of 1092/1681.” Bilkent University, Ankara, 2006.

Kaye, Alan S. “The Etymology of ‘Coffee’: The Dark Brew.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 106, no. 3, 1986, pp. 557–558. doi:10.2307/602112.

Megenassa, Worku Derara. The Ethnoarchaeology of Coffee Production and Consumption: Three Case Studies from Southwest Ethiopia (Kafecho, Majangir and Oromo). Dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2019.

Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Basic Books, 2019.

Sweetser, Heather Marie. “A Chapter in the History of Coffee: A Critical Edition and Translation of Murtaḍā Az-Zabīdī’s Epistle on Coffee Presented.” Ohio State University, 2012.

The Qur’an. Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, revised translation with commentary and notes, paperback ed., Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Feb. 2022.

Ukers, William H. All About Coffee. The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal Co., 1935.

Wild, Antony. Coffee: A Dark History. W. W. Norton, 2004.