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    The Isaaq (Somali: Reer Sheekh Isxaaq, Arabic: بنو إسحاق, Banu Ishaq) is a major Somali clan. It is one of the largest Somali clan families in the Horn...
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    The Isaaq genocide (Somali: Xasuuqii beesha Isaaq; Arabic: الإبادة الجماعية لقبيلة إسحاق), also known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, was the systematic, state-sponsored...
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    The Isaaq Sultanate (Somali: Saldanadda Isaaq, Wadaad: سَلْدَنَدْدَ إساقْ, Arabic: السلطنة الإسحاقية) was a Muslim sultanate that ruled parts of the Horn...
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    modern period, successor states to the Adal Sultanate emerged, including the Isaaq Sultanate which was established in the middle of the 18th century. In the...
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    harsh policies enacted by the Barre regime against the Isaaq people, in April 1981 a group of Isaaq businesspeople, students, former civil servants and former...
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    bin Ahmed bin Muhammad , more commonly known as Sheikh Ishaaq or Sheikh Isaaq (Arabic: الشيخ إسحاق بن أحمد بن محمد, romanized: Ash-Shaykh Isḥāq bin Aḥmad...
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    coast and the interior by the Isaaq Sultanate. Initially it served as a watering well for the vast livestock of the Isaaq clan that inhabited that specific...
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    Somali clans (section Isaaq)
    divided among five patrilineal clans, the Hawiye, Darod, Rahanweyn, Dir, and Isaaq. The average person is able to trace his/her ancestry generations back....
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  • “final solution” to Somalia's “Isaaq problem”. A United Nations investigation concluded that the Barre regime's killing of Isaaq civilians was a genocide,...
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    independence. In 1977, a group of Somali expats in Saudi Arabia hailing from the Isaaq clan begun to collect funds for the aim of launching a newspaper covering...
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  • Garhajis (category Isaaq)
    Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad) is a major clan of the wider Isaaq clan family. They are the traditional holders of the Isaaq Sultanate and Habr Yunis Sultanate since the...
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  • when armed Isaaq clan militias began to launch small-scale attacks against the Barre regime and its Isaaq members, to the razing of the Isaaq majority town...
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    Eidagale (category Isaaq)
    the Isaaq clan family. Members of this clan are concentrated in Somaliland and the Somali region. They are the traditional holders of the Isaaq Sultanate...
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    Saadi 'Alawi Ottoman Russian Tsarist Imperial Contemporary Sokoto Somali Isaaq Tongan Vietnamese Mac Revival Le Tay son Dainam Vietnam Lists Empires largest...
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    the Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland. Situated in Salahlay District. The Isaaq Sultanate was established in the mid-18th century by Sultan Guled of the...
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  • as Habr Yunis is a major clan part of the wider Isaaq clan. As descendants of Ismail bin Sheikh Isaaq, its members form a part of the wider Habar Magaadle...
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    Daud Mahamed (category Grand sultans of the Isaaq Sultanate)
    داؤد بن محمد بن عبدالقادر) is the ninth and current Grand Sultan of the Isaaq Sultanate. He was crowned on 13 February 2021 in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland...
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  • Abdallah Deerow Isaaq (Somali: Cabdalle Deeroow Isaaq, Arabic: عبد الله اسحاق ديرو; 1950 – 2006), sometimes Abdullah Deerow Isaq, was a Somali politician...
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  • Somali clan. Its members form a part of the Subeer Awal sub-clan of the Isaaq clan family. The Sa'ad Musa traditionally consists of nomadic pastoralists...
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    families on the East African coast. In Somaliland, the Isaaq Sultanate was established in 1750. The Isaaq Sultanate was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of...
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  • Jibril Abokor sub-divisions of the Sa'ad Musa subclan of the Habar Awal Isaaq, dominating both the town itself and the wider Wajaale district. M. Abdi...
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    declaration of economic warfare on the Isaaq. The transfer of power to non-Isaaq pro-government individuals further pushed Isaaq communities to rebel against Barre's...
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    bodyguard before he married his daughter reportedly told Isaaq nomads at a waterhole "if you Isaaqs resist, we will destroy your towns, and you will inherit...
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    tribal politics, abuses of the National Security Service including the Isaaq genocide, and the sharp decline of Somalia's economy. In 1991, Barre's government...
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    Saadi 'Alawi Ottoman Russian Tsarist Imperial Contemporary Sokoto Somali Isaaq Tongan Vietnamese Mac Revival Le Tay son Dainam Vietnam Lists Empires largest...
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    Declaration of Independence was made on 18 May 1991 by Somali sultans from the Isaaq, Dhulbahante, Issa, Gadabursi, Warsangali clans, as well as the Somali National...
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    Saadi 'Alawi Ottoman Russian Tsarist Imperial Contemporary Sokoto Somali Isaaq Tongan Vietnamese Mac Revival Le Tay son Dainam Vietnam Lists Empires largest...
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    Habr Awal (category Isaaq)
    ash-Shaykh Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad) is one of the largest subclans of the wider Isaaq clan family, and is further divided into eight sub-clans of whom the two...
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    Saadi 'Alawi Ottoman Russian Tsarist Imperial Contemporary Sokoto Somali Isaaq Tongan Vietnamese Mac Revival Le Tay son Dainam Vietnam Lists Empires largest...
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    Fath (born 1984), American actress Farah Guled 3rd Grand Sultan of the Isaaq clan Farah Hussein (born 2001), Egyptian gymnast Farah Ali Jama, Somali...
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