| Darod دارود | |
|---|---|
| Somali clan | |
 | |
| Ethnicity |  Somali |
| Nisba | al-Jabarti |
| Location | Somalia Ethiopia Kenya Yemen Oman |
| Descended from | Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti |
| Parent tribe | Banū Hāshim |
| Branches |
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| Language | Somali Arabic |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
The Darod (Somali: Daarood, Arabic: دارود) is a Somali clan. The forefather of this clan is Sheikh Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, more commonly known as Darod.[1][2] The clan primarily settles the apex of the Horn of Africa and its peripheries, the Somali hinterlands adjacent to Oromia (Ogaden), and both sides of the Kenya–Somalia border.[3] The Darod clan is the largest Somali clan family in the Horn of Africa.[4][1][2][5]
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- ^ a b Lewis, Ioan M (July 1959). "Clanship and Contract in Northern Somaliland". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 29 (3): 274–293. doi:10.2307/1157617. JSTOR 1157617. S2CID 143243256. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
- ^ Ethnic Groups (Map). Somalia Summary Map. Central Intelligence Agency. 2002. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2012-07-30. Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection – N.B. Various authorities indicate that the Darod is one of the largest Somali clans [1] Archived 2023-04-08 at the Wayback Machine, whereas others suggest that the Hawiye is the largest Somali clan within Somalia, nevertheless, there is an available census that was conducted along the lines of clan affiliates [2] Archived 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Grant, Peter (2018). Somalia. Archived from the original on 2020-03-22. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
Darood is the largest clan among all Somalis across borders.
- ^ Lewis, IM (2019). A Modern History Of Somalia.
the Dulbahante and Warsangeli divisions of the Darod who, with a strength of perhaps one and a half million, are the largest and most widely distributed of all the Somali clan-families.