This bean-based drink was first sent from Ethiopia to Yemen by Somali merchants from Berbera and Zeila, in what is now Somaliland. They got it from Harar and inland Ethiopia. Which drink, spread through the Muslim world by Sufi religious groups starting in the 1400s, do the two source?

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Coffee. Coffee first grew wild in the highlands of Ethiopia and Yemen. It was first sent from Ethiopia to Yemen by Somali merchants from the ports of Berbera and Zeila, who got the beans from Harar and inland Ethiopia. It spread through the Muslim world in the 1400s and 1500s thanks in part to Sufi religious groups. Harar is still one of the world's most prized single-origin coffee regions.