Shanshiyo
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'Shanshiyo (Somali: Shanshiyo Arabic: الشاشي) or Shaanshi is a Banaadiri clan, mainly from the southern coastal cities of Mogadishu, Marka, Baraawe and Kismayo[1] which established communities in the hinterlands in towns such as Baidoa and Diinsoor due to trading.
Overview
The clan traces its ancestry to
Awooto Eeday.[4] All Shaanshiyos in Banaadir ancestry trace back to the common ancestor Abubakar Qaffal al-Shashi (from Shaash, which refers to what is now Tashkent)[5]). From here, this group moved to other places along the coast and into the hinterlands of the former Banaadir. In Marka, they are part of the local confederacies called the 12 Koofi (Somali: 12 hats) along with clans such as Duruqbo, Asharaf (Ba 'Alawi, Bin Hassan and Mahdali), Gameedle, Haatim, Reer Khaadib, Shukureere, Juunji, Reer Manyo and Shiikhaal (Gendershe and Jaziira).[3] In Baraawe, they are also found in one of the local clan confederacies called Biido, where the Shanshiyo sub-clan Abdi Shuuqale find themselves part of the Reer Faqi
clan who are also originally from Hamar Weyne.
Notable people
- astrologist. An annual festival is held for him in the Koodka neighbourhood of Hamar Weyne.[6]
- Sheikh Abba, for the latter part of the 20th century Sheikh Mahamed Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahamud al-Shashy, popularly known as Sheikh Abba, was a leading member of the Mogadishu 'ulama, a follower of the Qadiriyya tariqa and a foremost sheikh of Hamar Weyne.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Xamar of Mogadishu. pp. 107–108.
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu. p. 205.
- ^ a b Ahmed, Hassan. La città di Marka, i Bimaal e il dominio sulla costa somala. p. 58.
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu. p. 148.
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu. p. 226.
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu. p. 161.
- ^ Adam, Anita. Benadiri People of Somalia with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu. p. 223.