Sheikh Ishaq الشيخ إسحاق | |
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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 |
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]
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