According to Ira M. Lapidus, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History, the Ethiopian slave trade benefited the Muslims, and increased the Islamization of the Oromo people.
根據中東和伊斯蘭歷史教授伊拉·拉皮度斯（Ira M. Lapidus）介紹，埃塞俄比亞的奴隸貿易使穆斯林受益，並增加了奧羅莫人民的伊斯蘭化。