962 AH
Approximate date
Two Syrians open Istanbul's first coffee house. Coffee, first drunk by Sufis in Yemen to stay awake for night prayer, spreads to Europe through Ottoman lands.
How it touches Islam The word coffee comes from the Arabic qahwa, by way of the Turkish kahve.
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