Ishaaq bin Ahmed

Sheikh Ishaq
الشيخ إسحاق
Sheikh Ishaq ; الشيخ إسحاق
	Tomb of Sheikh Ishaaq in Maydh, Sanaag, Somaliland
Personal
Died	; 14th century; Maydh, modern-day Somaliland
Religion	Islam
Children	Ahmed (Tolje'lo); Musa (Je'lo); Muhammad ('Ibran); Ibrahim (Sanbuur); Abd al-Rahman (Awal); Muhammad (Arap); Ayub ; Isma'il (Garhajis)
Region	Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti
Main interest(s)	Islamic literature, Islamic philosophy
Other names	Ash-Shaykh Ishaaq

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Ishaaq 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 bin Muḥammad, Somali: Sheekh Isxaaq) was an Islamic scholar that crossed the sea from Arabia to the Horn of Africa. He is regarded the Sayyid forefather of the Isaaq clan-family in the Horn of Africa, whose traditional territory is wide and densely populated.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Sheikh Ishaaq traveled from Yemen to Somaliland in the 10th or 11th century, where he married two women; one from the local Dir clan and the other from the neighbouring Harari people.^[5]^[6]^[7] He sired eight sons who are the common ancestors of the Isaaq clan-family. He remained in Maydh until his death.^[8] He is said to have settled in what is today the Erigavo District, and to have established his capital at Maydh.^[9]

^ Ethnic Groups (Map). Somalia Summary Map. Central Intelligence Agency. 2002. Retrieved 2012-07-30. Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection – N.B. Various authorities indicate that the Isaaq is among the largest east African clans who adopted the somali language [1], [2].
^ "Somalia – The great Somali migrations". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
^ Berns-McGown, Rima (1999). Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 9780802082817.
^ Lewis, Ioan M., A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 22–23.
^ Nelson, Harold D. (1982). Somalia, a Country Study. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 330.
^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ I.M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 31 & 42
^ Adam, Hussein M. (1980). Somalia and the World: Proceedings of the International Symposium Held in Mogadishu on the Tenth Anniversary of the Somali Revolution, October 15–21, 1979. Halgan.
^ Lewis, Ioan (1960). "The Somali Conquest of the Horn of Africa". Journal of African History. 1 (2): 213–230. doi:10.1017/S0021853700001808. JSTOR 180241. S2CID 162301641. p. 219.

[pcl-1] Ethnic Groups (Map). Somalia Summary Map. Central Intelligence Agency. 2002. Retrieved 2012-07-30. Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection – N.B. Various authorities indicate that the Isaaq is among the largest east African clans who adopted the somali language [1], [2].

[2] "Somalia – The great Somali migrations". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-03-24.

[McGown-3] Berns-McGown, Rima (1999). Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 9780802082817.

[Lewis2-4] Lewis, Ioan M., A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 22–23.

[5] Nelson, Harold D. (1982). Somalia, a Country Study. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 330.

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[Lewis3-7] I.M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 31 & 42

[8] Adam, Hussein M. (1980). Somalia and the World: Proceedings of the International Symposium Held in Mogadishu on the Tenth Anniversary of the Somali Revolution, October 15–21, 1979. Halgan.

[9] Lewis, Ioan (1960). "The Somali Conquest of the Horn of Africa". Journal of African History. 1 (2): 213–230. doi:10.1017/S0021853700001808. JSTOR 180241. S2CID 162301641. p. 219.

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