After the Legend of Kaldi the concept of coffee moved to The Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs were the first to cultivate and the first to trade coffee. In the fifteenth century coffee was being grown in the Yemeni district of Arabia to meet the growing demand for the new beverage that was coffee. By the sixteenth century the coffee buzz was going around in Persia, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. Read how drinking coffee effected the civilization of The Arabian Peninsula below.
Coffee was not only drunk in homes but also in the many public coffee houses — called qahveh khaneh — which began to appear in cities across the Near East. The popularity of the coffee houses was unequaled and people frequented them for all kinds of social activity. Not only did they drink coffee and engage in conversation, but they also listened to music, watched performers, played chess and kept current on the news of the day. In fact, they quickly became such an important center for the exchange of information that the coffee houses were often referred to as ‘Schools of the Wise.’
SRC: Read more about coffee’s history in The Arabian Peninsula at: ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=68
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