Sheikh Abadir, the alleged patriarch of the Harari arrived in Harar in the tenth century establishing the Abadir dynasty, it is said he was met by the Harla, Gaturi and Argobba people. In the middle ages Hararis led by Abadir supposedly came into conflict with the Shirazi people who had occupied Somalia's coast. By the thirteenth century, the Hararis were among the administrators of the Ifat Sultanate. In the fourteenth century raids on the Harari town of Get (Gey) by Abyssinian Emperor Amda Seyon I, Hararis are referred to as Harlas. During the Ethiopian–Adal war, some Harari militia settled in Gurage territory, forming the Siltʼe people. Hararis once represented the largest concentration of agriculturalists in East Africa.