• Ashraf (Somali: Af-Ashraaf) is a speech variety of Somali spoken in the Marka district of the Lower Shebelle region and Banaadir region of southern Somalia...
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  • Sharif (redirect from Ashraf)
    and Jordan 1921–present) Asharaf or Ashraf, Somali clan claiming descent from Muhammad through Fatima List of Ashrāf tribes in Libya Sharif of Mecca Sharifate...
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  • Soomaali IV Maay Banaadir-Northern (including Ashraf Somali) Jiiddu in this model is relocated as not even a Somali sensu lato variety in origin, but instead...
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  • Libyan society is composed of several Ashrāf tribes. The word Ashrāf (Arabic: أشراف, lit. 'nobles') refers to persons claiming descent from the family...
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  • Asharaf (category Somali clans)
    The Asharaf, also spelled Ashraf (from the Arabic: أشراف, romanized: ashrāf, lit. 'nobles'), is a Somali clan. Their name is the plural of sharīf, an originally...
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  • word meaning 'most noble'. Ashraf may also refer to: Asharaf or Ashraf, a Somali clan claiming descent from Muhammad Ashraf, East Azerbaijan, a village...
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    spoken primarily in Greater Somalia, and by the Somali diaspora as a mother tongue. Somali is an official language in both Somalia and Ethiopia, and serves...
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  • This is a list of notable Somalis from Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia as well as the Somali diaspora. Ali A. Abdi – sociologist and educationist...
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    Qaitbay (redirect from Ashraf Qaitbay)
    Sultan Abu Al-Nasr Sayf ad-Din Al-Ashraf Qaitbay (Arabic: السلطان أبو النصر سيف الدين الأشرف قايتباي; c. 1416/1418 – 7 August 1496) was the eighteenth...
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  • Northern Somali (Somali: Af Waqooyi, alternatively known as Maxaa Tiri) is a dialect of the Somali language and forms the basis for Standard Somali. It is...
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  • Benadiri Somali, also referred to as "Coastal Somali" (Somali: Af Reer Xamar), is a dialect of the Somali language. It is primarily spoken by the Benadiri...
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  • Dada Masiti (category 19th-century Somali women writers)
    sides hailed from the Mahadali Ashraf clan. Her mother's maternal grandfather also belonged to the Ali Naziri Ashraf, which commanded more influence...
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    Ahmed Isse Awad (category CS1 Somali-language sources (so))
    or Ahmed Eissa Awed (Somali: Axmed Ciise Cawad; Arabic: أحمد عيسى عوض; Turkish: Ahmett Ise Aved; born 1955 in Garoowe) is a Somali politician and diplomat...
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  • Yaaku Eastern ("Somaloid") branch Rendille Karre–Boni Tunni–Dabarre Ashraf Maay Somali Roger Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and...
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    central government of Somalia collapsed in 1991, the once firmly regulated Somali charcoal trade reopened. In the 1990s, the Somali Civil War, destructive...
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  • Bravanese people (category Ethnic groups in Somalia)
    The Hon. Bur’i Mohamed Hamza (Somali: Burci Maxamed Xamza, Arabic: البرعي محمد حمزة, died 25 June 2016) was a Somali-Canadian politician. He served as...
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  • MALBATT: Misi Bakara (category Somali Civil War films)
    Abdalle, a Somali serving as MALBATT's interpreter and friend of Lance Corporal Ramlee Emmanuel Mele Jason as chief militia of the United Somali Congress...
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  •  1878–1911), Somali ruler and the fifth Sultan of the Gobroon Dynasty Osman Ali Atto (c. 1940–2013), Somali warlord Osman Jama Ali (born 1941), Somali politician...
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    Lebanese Parliament Speaker Hussein Hasan, Somali poet and warrior Hussein Farrah Aidid (1917–1980), Somali war veteran Hussein Fatal, American rap artist...
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  • activist Qasem Taei (born 1960), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja (grand ayatollah) Ashraf Kasem (born 1966), Egyptian footballer Dollah Kassim (1949–2010), Singaporean...
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  • supertanker, Laurel 11 (based on the real-life Bunga Laurel), was hijacked by Somali pirates at the Gulf of Aden one night. The Royal Malaysian Navy picks up...
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  • relations among foreign conquerors, local upper-caste Hindus convert to Islam (ashraf, also known as tabqa-i ashrafiyya) and local lower-caste converts (ajlaf)...
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  • Ibran (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Haggenmacher's Reise Im Somali-lande, 1874: Mit Einer Originalkarte (in German). J. Perthes. Abbink, J. (1999). The Total Somali Clan Genealogy: A Preliminary...
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    unlikely that the cause of his death was AIDS. Arafat's personal doctor Ashraf al-Kurdi and aide Bassam Abu Sharif maintained that Arafat was poisoned...
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    Benadiri people (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    The Banaadiri people (Somali: Reer Benaadir, Arabic: البنادريون) are a people group in Somalia. Banaadiris largely inhabit Somalia's southern coastline....
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  • who live between the Awash River Dire Dawa. And Hararghe. The Sherifa, or Ashraf, who live between the Awash River and Dire Dawa East Hararge Babile Deder...
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    ISBN 9693515307. Vachon, Boudreau & Cogné 1998, p. 237. Abu Huraira Virasat Rasul. Ashraf Al Ansab. Karachi Publications. Khan, Shah Nawaz (1952). Maasir al Umara...
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  • Sanbur (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Haggenmacher's Reise Im Somali-lande, 1874: Mit Einer Originalkarte (in German). J. Perthes. Abbink, J. (1999). The Total Somali Clan Genealogy: A Preliminary...
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  • Abudwak (category Articles containing Somali-language text)
    Abudwak (Somali: Caabudwaaq) is a town located in central Somalia. It serves as the administrative seat of Abudwak District located in the northern Galgaduud...
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    scholar Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz (1879–1935), second king of Hejaz 'Ali Ashraf (c.1735–c.1780), Iranian painter Ali Akbar Navis, Indonesian author Ali...
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