A manuscripts of xeer cisse from 1814

[Midas]

It's amazing what you can find my crawling through somali social media. This guy apparently found a somali ajami manuscript of xeer cisse from 1814. That's 211 years ago.

 

[Midas]

My bad he actually talls about it in part 2

 

[Midas]

It really seems like this stuff was heavily formalized and written. He's also talking about the xeer and mentions a lot of esoteric stuff about it

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[Midas]

I think this is actually the oldest somali ajami manuscript I've heard of so far and the longest as well.

 

[Idilinaa]

This is major. They need to digitize this.

Someone should send this to that Somali academic(forgot his name) , who works with old manuscripts.

 

[Midas]

This is major. They need to digitize this.

Someone should send this to that Somali academic(forgot his name) , who works with old manuscripts.

They really should. But it goes to show that the excerpt you posted on here about the guy talking about somali books is no joke. We'll hopefully find more of these kinds of manuscripts.

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[Som]

I think this is actually the oldest somali ajami manuscript I've heard of so far and the longest as well.

We can only imagine how many others there are which are more ancient and haven't been publicized. Somalia's history research is literally in it's baby footsteps. Somali wadaad script is supposedly at least 700-800 years old , if complex stuff like this was being written in 1814 when can reasonably expect works from at least 200-300 years old before that date

 

[Midas]

We can only imagine how many others there are which are more ancient and haven't been publicized. Somalia's history research is literally in it's baby footsteps. Somali wadaad script is supposedly at least 700-800 years old , if complex stuff like this was being written in 1814 when can reasonably expect works from at least 200-300 years old before that date

Yeah i can't imagine how much there must be out there. It also seems to mainly be writing on local cultural and historical stuff. At the end of the video for example he talks about the book mentions spefically the xeer of some profession/job called uul haye ?

He also interestingly enough talks about how if people think their are mistakes in the work that corrections are more than welcome but that is should have some evidence behind it. (This dudd seems like a very serious researcher he's also apparently the guy behind the aaya reeb book series )

 

[Nur_]

I think this is actually the oldest somali ajami manuscript I've heard of so far and the longest as well.

I do remember seeing a letter somewhere on twitter that was between some ottoman empire leader and a somali sultanate leader. I'm not sure if it was legitimate though.