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Ogaden, Absame, Darod, and other Somali clans |
The Jidwaq (Somali: Jidwaaq, Arabic: جيدواق) is a large Somali clan, part of one of the largest Somali clans families, the Absame Darod.[1][2][3] Jidwaq are well known for their conquests in Abyssinia during the 1500s they played a very prominent role in the Adal Sultanate.[4] They are famous for bringing the largest army and were very loyal to Imam Ahmad. Jidwaq have produced notable generals such as Ahmed Girri Bin Hussein who was the right hand man of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.[5]
The Jidwaq clan primarily inhabit the Somali Region of Ethiopia,[6][7] (where they live in the Jigjiga area),[8] the North Eastern Province of Kenya and the Jubaland region of southern Somalia (where they live south of Bu'ale).[9] The name Jidwaaq means "the path of God" in the Somali language.[10] The Jidwaq clan are divided into two branches; Rooble Jidwaaq (Abasguul & Yabaree) and Bare Jidwaaq (Bartire).
According to the UNHCR, the Jidwaq in the Somali Region are mostly agro-pastoralists. They often engage in agriculture but also raise livestock.[11]
The Jidwaq clan primarily inhabit Fafan Region Somali Region, Ethiopia and Federal Member State in southern Somalia. Garad Wil Wal brave and wise Somali leader. Hawo Tako is also known (Xaawo Taako or hawa osman) Born in Kebri Beyah in the Somali Region, Ethiopia and her brother was one of the founding fathers of SYL which his disapearence brought her to become a member of SYL, Tako participated in the 1948 riots in Mogadishu that followed the visit of the Four-Power Commission, where she was killed. The Mogadishu massacre of 1948 many were killed 14, including Hawo Tako who tried to protect her people.
were the first tribe accept the call of jihad. They have also produced notable military commanders such as Ahmed Girri Bin Hussein who was the right hand of the Imam, a knight serving under Adal Sultanate who then later progressed to becoming a military commander leading the Somali units in battle.
Arab Faqih notes
Then he assembled the Somali clans the tribe of Girri, the tribe of Marraihan, the tribe of Yibberi with their chieftain Ahmad Girri, the clan of the Härti, people of Mait, the tribe of Jairan, the tribe of Mazzar. the tribe of Barsub all of these were Somalis and they were ordered by the Imam to hold the left they were all under Matan[12]
The Jidwaaq (Bartire) and the Gerri have been described by The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society as the western-most branches of the Darod clan. The Bartire subclan in particular has been described as pastoralists in addition to growing coffee, as well as intermarrying with the Emirs of Harar, giving them an amount of influence.[13]
To the South and S.S.W. of Berbera, on the road to Hurrur, the kafilas pass though [sic] the country of the Burtirrh, and Girrhi, the two most western branches of the family of Darood. Of these two tribes little is known. The Emirs of Hurrur have for many years intermarried with the Burtirrhi, and this gives them a certain degree of influence, but they do not visit the sea-coast so commonly as the other tribes, and appear to be a pastoral race, occupied solely in tending their flocks and herds, and in planting the coffee-tree on the low ranges S.E. of Hurrur.
There is no clear agreement on the clan and sub-clan structures and many lineages are omitted. The following listing is taken from the World Bank's Conflict in Somalia: Drivers and Dynamics from 2005 and the United Kingdom's Home Office publication, Somalia Assessment 2001.[14][15]