What's intresting is that this is around the time the shafis began to gain prominence in yemen and somalia. Since the ayyubids favored the shafi madhab and so eygot in the ayyubid and later the mamluk period caused the shafis to spread both to eygot and Syria . Then make it's way down to Yemen and somalia. It's kind of funny how you have people who think somalis picked up the shafi madhab from Yemen later. When it appeared at around the same time in both.I've already adressed this.
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If you look at the Rasulid corpus the early ones carrying Al-Zaylai and Al-Jabarti nisba didn't claim Aqili. But then it starts around 1300s and it was formed out of elite group of Somali scholars.
So Somalis were already Muslims before the Aqili lineage descent was incorporated into their clan structure. Like i said to you before in another thread i don't think it reflects Islamization, more than it reflects the founding of newer clans and Somali saint cult.