> For more information about religious fatwa's against coffee use and early adoption see (https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA633&lpg=PA633&dq=a

> For more information about religious fatwa's against coffee use and early adoption see (https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA633&lpg=PA633&dq=ahmed+sunbati+fatwa+coffee&source=bl&ots=F8JskkJCa4&sig=ACfU3U2qSicQEG0u7iK_NGWaGTOvw53kxg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW_-XHtvLlAhXT6Z4KHZm3AR8Q6AEwAXoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=ahmed%20sunbati%20fatwa%20coffee&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA633&lpg=...) Excellent resource! It's an anecdote, but once I heard that governments criminalized coffee more readily than alcohol because people got together and conspired. In the case of alcohol the conspirators forgot what they had talked about by the morning, but with coffee they did not. Your source seems to hint at that as well: > The fact that current politics were discussed in the coffee-houses, the government's acts criticised and intrigues woven, was the principal cause for the intervention of the authorities.