Coffee In The Arabian Peninsula

• There was fierce competition to cultivate coffee outside of Arabia.
• The Dutch finally got seedlings in the latter half of the 17th century. The plants thrived on the Island of Java, what is now Indonesia.
• The Dutch had a productive and growing trade in coffee and expanded ...

The first person known to write about coffee was a Persian physician and philosopher named Rhazes or Razi (850 to 922 AD), who characterized it as a medicine.

Other early writings establish Yemen, on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, as home to the first coffee p...

By the 17th century, coffee had made its way to Europe and was becoming popular across the continent. Despite the controversy, coffee houses were quickly becoming centers of social activity and communication in the major cities of England, Austria, France, Germany, and Holland.

Coffee bega...