Clans Somalis



tomb of sheikh darod in haylaan.


somalis ethnically of hamitic ancestry, have genealogical traditions of descent various arabian patriarchs associated spread of islam. segmented various clan groupings, important kinship units play central part in somali culture , politics. clan families patrilineal, , divided clans, primary lineages or subclans, , dia-paying kinship groups. lineage terms qabiil, qolo, jilib , reer interchangeably used indicate different segmentation levels. clan represents highest kinship level. owns territorial properties , typically led clan-head or sultan. primary lineages descended clans, , exogamous political units no formally installed leader. comprise segmentation level individual indicates or belongs to, founding patriarch reckoned between 6 , ten generations.


the 5 major clan families traditionally nomadic pastoralist darod, dir, hawiye , isaaq, , sedentary agropastoralist rahanweyn minor somali clans include benadiri.



sheikh isaaq s tomb in maydh.


the dir, hawiye, gardere( gaalje el, degodia, garre), hawadle , ajuran trace agnatic origins patriarch samaale arabian banu hashim origins through aqiil abu talib ibn abd al-muttalib. sheikh darod is, in turn, asserted have married woman dir, establishing matrilateral ties samaale main stem. darod have separate paternal traditions of descent through abdirahman bin isma il al-jabarti (sheikh darod), said have arrived @ later date arabian peninsula, in 10th or 11th centuries. isaaq clan traces paternal descent islamic leader sheikh isaaq bin ahmed al hashimi (sheikh isaaq), held have married magaadle subclan of dir in northwestern somaliland area. rahanweyn or sab trace stirp patriarch sab. both samaale , sab supposed have descended common lineage originating in arabian peninsula. these traditions of descent elite arab forefathers, settled on littoral, debated, although based on arab documents , northern oral folklore.


the tombs of founders of darod, dir , isaaq major clans, abgaal subclan of hawiye located in northern somalia. tradition holds general area ancestral homeland of somali people.








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