Farah Garad Explained

Group:Farah Garad
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Langs:Somali, Arabic, English
Rels:Islam (Sunni)
Related-C:Mohamoud Garad (Galool Oriye, Jama Siad), Baho Nugaaled, and other Darod groups
Native Name:Faarax Garaad
فارح جراد

The Farah Garad or the Garad Farah (Somali: Faarax Garaad, Arabic: فارح جراد, Full Name: ’Farah Shirshore Habarwa Abdullah Muse Said Saleh Abdi Mohamed Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti) is a Somali clan which is part of the Dhulbahante clan-family, a sub-division of the larger Harti/Darod clan. The Farah Garad are divided into two sub-clans — Yassin Garad and Abdalla Garad. Abdalla has four clan eponyms, Ahmed Garad, Mohamed Garad (Baharsame), Guled Garad (Barkad) and Ali Garad. They are largely significant in Sool and Togdheer regions of Somalia, and Dollo Somali region of Ethopia.

Garad Jama Garad Ali is concurrently the Garad of Farah Garad and the supreme Garad of Dhulbahante. [1]

Overview

The largest of the Farah Garad sub-clans is "Ahmed Garad" which are made up of Ali geri Ahmed, Aadan Ahmed, Naaleeye Ahmed, Samakaab Ahmed & Cigaal Ahmed(Odala), Warfaa Ahmed, and Hassan Ahmed.

Distribution

The primarily homeland of the clan straddles the Nugaal Valley and the Ciid segments of the Haud plateaus where they inhabit the Sool and Togdheer region of Somalia.[2] In particular, they settle in the districts of Las Anod and Buuhoodle. In Ethiopia, the clan has a significant presence in the Dollo Zone, specifically in the woredas of Boh, Danot and Werder.[3] [4]

Garadate seat

Garadate

Groups

People

Chief caaqil groups

Barkad

People

There were many notable Barkad people in the Dervish haroun, i.e. its government. These include:

Ali Ahmed (Ali Geri Ahmed)

The Ali Geri Ahmed is whom caaqils (chieftains) of Ahmed Garad give deference to by extension.[5] The poem by Ali Dhuh refers that the Reer Khayre sub branch of the Reer Suban sub clan of Ali Geri, Mahad Adan and Farah Adan, with Dhuh referring to it as a grouping in his poem Allahu Akbar.[6] The Bah Ali Geri onelings have the largest deegaan (traditional clan territory) of the Farah Garad clans, stretching some 200 kilometers, from Dhilaalo in the north to Dannood in the south. According to both colonial sources as well as native historians such as Jama Omar Issa, the Ali Geri were the clan whom began and started the early camp of Maxkamadaha Dervishta in 1895.[7]

The Ali Geri clan are particularly known for being the first tribe to adopt the Dervish (Dervish) identity,[8] [9] [10] and according to professor Ingiriis, the bulk of the Dervish ranks being of the Ali Geri clan, which suggested the Dervish ideology moved towards "clan solidarity".[11]

Groups

In the following Dervish administrative divisions, at least half comprised Bah Ali Gheri muqaddims (arbitrators), scouts, clerics, tenders and fighters:

People

Lineage

There is no clear agreement on the clan and sub-clan structures and some lineages might be omitted."[13] However, the following summarised clan tree presented below is taken from John Hunt's A general survey of the Somaliland Protectorate (1944-1950):[14]

Notes

Notable Figures

Athlete

Prime ministers

Leaders

Commanders

Tribal leaders

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Enterprisers

Legislative speakers

Politicians

Notes and References

  1. Hoehne . Markus . No Easy Way Out: Traditional Authorities in Somalia and the Limits of Hybrid Political Orders . Danish Institute for International Studies . 2011 . 8 . 28 May 2021.
  2. Book: Hoehne . Markus V. . Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision . 2015 . Rift Valley Institute . 38.
  3. Web site: Bryden . Matt . Report on Mission to Haud Area (REGION 5) . United Nations Development Programme . 17 September 2019.
  4. Book: Raeymaekers . Timothy . Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict, and Borderlands . 27 Aug 2013 . Springer . 69 . 20 September 2019. 9781137333995 .
  5. Radio and propagation of anti-and pro-Ethiopian narratives in Somalia, p 15 - 33, 2012, Alin Mohamed
  6. Web site: Sayyid Mohammed: And the Role of Poetic Stanzas in his Dervish Struggle . www.geeskaafrika.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20201022130222/https://www.geeskaafrika.com/sayyid-mohammed-and-the-role-of-poetic-stanzas-in-his-dervish-struggle/ . 2020-10-22.
  7. live . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XO0AqGiR8rU . 2021-12-11. Taariikh Nololeedkii sayid Cabdulle xasan by Aw-jaamac cumar ciise. . YouTube.
  8. Book: Genis . Gerhard . Mohammed Abdulle Hassan en sy volgelinge . 1996 . Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies . 81 . Die Mullah se eerste volgelinge was die Ali Gheri, sy moedersmense. Laasgenoemde was dee I van die Dolbahanta-stam en die grootste getal van die Derwisj-beweging se volgelinge was uit die stam afkomstig. (english translation) The Mullah's first gathering of force were the Ali Gheri, his mother's kin. The latter is a subtribe of the Dolbahanta tribe and is where largest proportion of the Darwish followers were descended from..
  9. Book: Abdi . Abdulqadir . Divine Madness . 1993 . Zed Books . 101 . to the Dervish cause, such as the Ali Gheri, the Mullah's maternal kinsmen and his first supporters. In fact, Swayne had instructions to fine the Ali Gheri 1000 camels for possible use in the upcoming campaign.
    • Book: Bartram . R . The annihilation of Colonel Plunkett's force . 1903 . The Marion Star . By his marriage he extended his influence from Abyssinia, on the west, to the borders of Italian Somaliland, on the east. The Ali Gheri were his first followers..
    • Book: Hamilton . Angus . Field Force . . 1911 . 50 . it appeared for the nonce as if he were content with the homage paid to his learnings and devotional sincerity by the Ogaden and Dolbahanta tribes. The Ali Gheri were his first followers.
    • Book: Leys . Thomson . The British Sphere . . 1903 . 5 . Ali Gheri were his first followers, while these were presently joined by two sections of the Ogaden.
  11. Ingiriis, Mohamed Haji. "The invention of Al-Shabaab in Somalia: Emulating the anti-colonial dervishes movement." African Affairs 117.467 (2018): 217-237. "Sayid abandoned that objective, moving away from it to clan solidarity. He proved this by obtaining the bulk of his fighters from the Ali Geri/Dhulbahante, a clan that held strong antipathy toward the British for supposedly supporting their nemesis"
  12. Book: Essa . Jama Omar . Taariikhdii Daraawiishta iyo Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan (1895-1921) . 1976 . Wasaaradda Hiddaha iyo Tacliinta Sare . 173 . 28 May 2021.
  13. Lewis, "Force and Fission in Northern Somali Lineage Structure", American Anthropologist, New Series, 63 (1961), p. 100
  14. Book: Hunt . John . A general survey of the Somaliland Protectorate-1944-1950 . Hargeisa . 141–145 . 20 September 2019.
  15. News: Golaha wasiirada ee dowlad goboleedka Puntland oo caawa la ansixiyay laguna dhawaaqay. . 28 May 2021 . Somali Swiss Media . 17 January 2009.

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