Isaaq Sultanate

Isaaq Sultanate
Saldanadda Isaaq (Somali)
سَلْدَنَدْدَ إساقْ (Somali)
السلطنة الإسحاقية (Arabic)
1749–1884
Flag of isxaaq
A banner used by the Adal Sultanate and later the Isaaq on key religious shrines[1]
Extent of the Isaaq clan-family at the end of the 19th century
Extent of the Isaaq clan-family at the end of the 19th century
CapitalToon (first)[2]
Hargeisa (last)
Common languagesArabic
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentMonarchy
Sultan 
• ~1700s
Abdi Eisa (Traditional Chief)
• 1750–1808 (first Sultan)
Guled Abdi
• 1870–1884 (last)
Deria Hassan
History 
• Established
1749
• Disestablished
1884
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Adal Sultanate
British Somaliland
Today part ofSomaliland

The Isaaq Sultanate (Somali: Saldanadda Isaaq, Wadaad: سَلْدَنَدْدَ إساقْ, Arabic: السلطنة الإسحاقية) was a Issaq kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries.[3][4] It spanned the territories of the Isaaq clan in modern-day Somaliland The sultanate was governed by the Rer Guled branch of the Garhajis clan[3] and is the pre-colonial predecessor to the modern Republic of Somaliland.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ أل شيخ عبدلله ري اشأل صومالي, كشف السدول لريراش ,٥٠
  2. ^ The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society 1850, Volume 9, p.133
  3. ^ a b "Somali Traditional States". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  4. ^ Ylönen, Aleksi Ylönen (28 December 2023). The Horn Engaging the Gulf Economic Diplomacy and Statecraft in Regional Relations. Bloomsbury. p. 113. ISBN 9780755635191.
  5. ^ "Taariikhda Beerta Suldaan Cabdilaahi ee Hargeysa | Somalidiasporanews.com". Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  6. ^ Genealogies of the Somal. Eyre and Spottiswoode (London). 1896.
  7. ^ "Taariikhda Saldanada Reer Guuleed Ee Somaliland.Abwaan:Ibraahim-rashiid Cismaan Guure (aboor). | Togdheer News Network". Retrieved 2021-08-09.

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