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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>=== Middle East ===<br />
Sufis in Yemen used the beverage as an aid to concentration and as a kind of spiritual intoxication when they chanted the name of God. Sufis used it to keep themselves alert during their nighttime devotions. By 1414, the plant was known in Mecca, and in the early 1500s was spreading to the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mameluke Sultanate]] of Egypt and North Africa from the Yemeni port of [[Mocha, Yemen|Mocha]]. Associated with [[Sufism]], a myriad of coffee houses popped up in Cairo (Egypt) around the religious [[Al-Azhar University|University of the Azhar]]. These coffee houses also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, and then in Constantinople, the capital of the [[Ottoman Empire]], in 1554. Coffee was also noted in [[Aleppo]] by the German physician botanist [[Leonhard Rauwolf]], the first European to mention it, as ''chaube'', in 1573; Rauwolf was closely followed by descriptions from other European travellers.</div>FuzzyBot