diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 434f819af..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "vendor/harfbuzz"]
-	path = vendor/harfbuzz
-	url = https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git
diff --git a/vendor/harfbuzz b/vendor/harfbuzz
deleted file mode 160000
index 0967a3e24..000000000
--- a/vendor/harfbuzz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0967a3e24ab5d79cc55dbe224652d8aabd942def