Back إسحاق (قبيلة) Arabic اسحاق (مجموعه عرقيه فى ارض الصومال) ARZ Issaq Catalan Isaaq German Isakoj Esperanto Isaaq French イサック Japanese Isaaka (vahoaka) Malagasy Isaaq Dutch Isaaq Portuguese
Isaaq, Reer Sheekh Isxaaq بنو إسحاق | |
|---|---|
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| Total population | |
| 3-4 million[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen | |
| Languages | |
| Somali, Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Islam (Sunni) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dir, Hawiye, Darod, Rahanweyn, other Somalis |
The Isaaq (also Ishaak, Isaac) (Somali: Reer Sheekh Isxaaq) is a major Somali clan family.[2] It is one of the largest Somali clan families in the Horn of Africa, with a large and densely populated traditional territory.
The Isaaq people claim in a traditional legend to have descended from the peninsular Arabian Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women; one from the local Dir clan. and the other from neighboring Harari people.[3] He is said to have sired eight sons who are the common ancestors of the clans of the Isaaq clan-family. He remained in Maydh until his death.[4]
- ^ Minahan, James B. (1 August 2016). Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 184–185. ISBN 979-8-216-14892-0.
- ^ Lewis, I. M. (1994). Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society. The Red Sea Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780932415936.
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- ^ 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.
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