Warsangali

The Warsangali Sultanate, also known as the Garaad Dynasty, was a Somali[disambiguation needed] imperial governing dynasty headquartered in northeastern and southeastern Somalia. It was one of the biggest sultanates ever founded in the province, including the Sanaag region and sections of the country's northeastern Bari region, which was traditionally known as Maakhir or the Maakhir Coast. The Sultanate of Gerad Dhidhin was established in northern Somalia in the late 13th century by a group of Somalis from the Warsangali branch of the Darod tribe and was controlled by the descendants of the Gerad Dhidhin. The Sultanate was controlled by the powerful Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shire in the late nineteenth century, during some of its most violent years. The Akil Dhahar dominated the area south of Sanaag and parts of the Bari region.

The Sultanate is recognized for its remarkable longevity as a political entity and its tendency to prioritize trade over conquest or expansionism. The Sultanates major ports included Maydh, Bosaso and finally Laasgoray, its capital.

The Warsangeli clan primarily inhabits the Maakhir region of northern Somalia, which consists of Sanaag, northern Sool, and the northwestern part of theBari region, along with some parts of southern Somalia (Bay, Bakool and Jubbada Hoose). The Warsangeli also have the oldest Sultanate amongst the Somali clans who inhabit the area comprising the former British Somaliland.

Warsangali sub-clans: The two most well-known of Warsangeli clans are :Hasan Garaad and cismaan and these are the two sons of garaad ibrahin (hammar galle ).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerad_Hamar_Gale

1- Hassan garaad ( garaad hammar galle) : They are three subclans : Ugaas abdirahmaan garaad hassan (ogeyslabe/ugaaslabe) Garaad ibraahin garaad hassan (omar) Suldaan yusuf garaad hassan (dubays).

Some historians said that garaad ibraahin and ugaas abdirahmaan(ogayslabe) are from one mother and they were called (bah omar) which called now called omar .

2- cismaan garaad ( cismaan ibrahin hammar gale): And they are five subclan : •Cawrmale •colmarabe •riigahye •gabyuud •iid-mooge.

According to sources from history books of warsangali sultanate during the english empire, Umar and Abd al-Rahman were from one mother and they named him ( bah umar) which is called now Omar.

Also garaad cismaan ibraahin had 5 sons: -cowrmale -colmarabe -riighaye -iid-mooge -gobyuud

lafaha Warsangeli, iyo sida ay u kala faracmeen

[edit]Citizens of Warsangeli

An article titled "Seychellois rekindle ties with Sultan of Somaliland" which was featured in one of the newspapers of the Republic of Seychelles captures a glimpse of Warsangeli history. It writes, "the Warsengeli Sultanate has been in existence for the last six hundred years." The clan's territory was recognized in the Arabian Peninsula, where it was referred to as Makhar or Makhir Coast. In 1848, C. J. Cruttenden reported that Warsangeli andMajeerteen territories were the most commercially valuable in the Nugaal Valley, and that Banians had become successful exporters. The Cal Madowchain of mouintains, which is inside the clan's territory, extends to the cities of Bosaso (the capital of the Bari region) and Ceerigaabo (the capital of the Sanaag region) in an east-west direction.

[edit]Western explorers and Warsangeli

[2][3]Ruins of the Warsangeli Sultanate in Laasqoray.Captain S. B. Miles's "On the Neighbourhood of Bunder Marayah" (1872) describes the Burri (eastern) clans, including the Warangeli, as being "as a rule, peaceable and orderly, and are generally loth to shed blood" and the Gulbêdh (western) clans as "much more turbulent and predatory than the Burri, and are in a chronic state of warfare and anarchy." C. J. Cruttenden, writing of the Dubeiss, an "Oor Singally" clan, reports that "in this tribe, theft is looked upon with abhorrence.... To call a man a thief is a deadly insult, to be washed out by blood alone. Pity is that the Somali tribes of the Edoor have not the same prejudice in favour of honesty." In contrast to Miles' account, Cruttenden characterized them as "powerful and warlike".

[edit]Clan tree

The United Kingdom's Home Office publication, Somalia Assessment 2001.

• Darod (Daarood)
  • Marehan
    • Red Dini
    • Rer Hassan
    • Eli Dheere
  • Kabalah
    • Absame
      • Ogaden
        • Makabul
        • Mohamed Zubeir
        • Aulihan
      • Jidwaq
    • Harti
      • Dhulbahante (Dolbahante)
      • Warsangali (Warsengeli)
      • Majeerteen (Mijerteen)
      • Dishiishle {dshiishe}

In his book "First Footsteps of East Afric (1856), Richard Francis Burton lists 18 principal subclans of Warsangeli, as follows:

Soory but Richard Burton never met any warsangali

[edit]Notable members

• Mohamoud Ali Shire, Sultan of former British Somaliland (1897–1960)
• Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl, writer
• Abdillahi Mohammed Ahmed, known as Qablan, former Under-Secretary of Finance
• Abdullahi Ahmed Jama ‘Ilkajir’ Somali Army General and Interior Minister of Puntland,2009–Present
• Jama Korshel, Somali Army General, former Head of Somali Police and one of the leaders of 1969 coup d'état of Somalia
• Hasan Hayle (Xasan Xayle), poet from Las Khorey
• Fatima Jibrell, founder of the Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization (Horn Relief)
• Mohammed Haji-Ali Shirwa Former Colonel in Somali Army and Historian
• Mohamed Nuur Giriig, classical singer