Cerulli "Iscrizioni e documenti arabi per la storia della Somalia"

[James Dahl]

This document is written in Italian and references a number of Arabic sources on Somali history. This document has not been adequately referenced in English speaking sources and is one of the few original sources for Somali history.

Here is a link:
http://abtirsi.com/Cerulli.pdf

I have tried to OCR a section of the Arabic text on Abubakr ibn Fakhruddiin

بسم اهله الرجان الرحيي هذه القصة للمقدشى اعلم ان اهل املقدشى كانوا
اربعني ال ر فقماتل متوهم اننى عشر من املقرى وأن تنى عشر من اجلدعتى
بنى قحطان بن وايل حضروا مدينة املقتدشى وقطعوا حشيشته قبل القبائل
مش بعد ذلكىك سكنوا بغية القبائل معيهم ان اهل بنى قحطان كانوا اكـبـر
القبائل حتى جعوا القبائل وتشاوروا لبنى قحطان وهم اهل الشيخ فقيه ابور
للفاضى واخلطيب وتوافقوا ان يجعلوهم قضاى وخطيب لبنى قحطان بن وايل
فاذا شاع ذكرهم ىف الناس مفدار ثالثمائة سنت وبعد ذلك جاء رجل غربــب
بذلك مث قام ابو بكر بن فخر الدين وذكر ليهم مائة درهم وهو ل يملك ذلك املال
ففرحا بذلك ودعوا له مت انصرفوا اىل منازليهم فاذا وصل اىل بيته فاته زوجته
وهو حثرين متغير اللون وقالت له يا زوجى انى انظر منك اليوم حزينا وما ىل
ارأك متغير النون ومصفر الوجه من اى فرع فقال ليها يا زوجانئ انى كنت فى
املسحجد الجامع وجاء رجل فقير وسال شيا فلم يهب احد حتى قام شيخنا احلاج
حسين ونشخنا 4 موسى واسال له شما شمر اصلى نفسى حتى ذكرن لوهم
وذلكك ما احزننى م قالت عرفنى ما ذا فقال ليها هو مائة دارهم مث قالت له هو
قربب فاعطه ذلك املمال مائة درهم فيا بنلى املال فدفعيهم ودعوا له فاذا جاء الليل
قال لعبده اغسل ثيابي فاذا وصل اىل البحر وغسل الثياب ورجع اىل موال
ونشر الثوب م قال السيد لعبده هل معك شيا من العنبر فقال له يا سيدى
ليس معى شى ولكن انى اظن هذاك اجلبل الذى غسلت عليه الثياب انه
عنبر تاء معه ونظر فاذا هو عنبر وجلوة كله بعون اهل ومنه وكان شيخنا جد
حاج طبرى عادته ان يخم القران ىف الليل مرة فاذا خم يتفجر الفجر وذاك الليل
ما انفجر الفجر حتى خم ختمتني وتفكر وتعجب لذلك الليل فاذا اصبع وجمع
ابو بكر بن تر الدين العنبر ىف بيته شاع خبره ىف املدينة وبعد ذلك ان
1 ربع ركن ججعوا وننشو روا ان يجعلوا سلطان ونوافقوا لفخر الدين فض علــوة
سلطانا وان القبائل تححخاصموا وقال كل قبيلة ن احىت به وهـذا غـريـب
كيف يكون السلطان لنا كن ما كن لنا سلطان منذ ثالثمائة سـنـت لو
اردناة لوليناه لبنى قحطان فانيهم احق به انيهم كانوا قضاءنا وخـطـيـاءنا
فقال فخر الدين انى اربد ليهم شيا لبنى قحطان جعلهم خليفة له وبسمون
االوالد ال يباع االرض ال بعضورهم وزيادة هذا مث ان مشاتخنا جعوا ليهم
فقالوا هنا غريب افاتركوه فانه ال يغضر علينا وتوافقوا له ونادوا له ى املدينة
فاذا سمع شيخنا فقيه حد حاج طبرى الدعوى طوى الكتاب وكان يفسر االية
قالت ان امللوك اذا دخلوا قربة افسدوها فاذا وىل جيهزوا اربعني مركبا وانقلوه
اىل بلد اخر الجل السلطان تمت وهنا الزمان ان اهل املقدشى يكتبون

OCR is probably erroneous in many places.

 

[James Dahl]

The text says the tribe of Qahtan ibn Wa'il built Mogadishu. This is Qahtan ibn Wa'il:
http://www.abtirsi.com/view.php?person=4957

The family of reer Faqi descends from that lineage. The abtirsi you can click through down that link is the Qadi of Mogadishu I copied it earlier from a book of lineages.

 

[Grant]

[QUOTE = "James Dahl, post: 1205823, member: 3053"] This document is written in Italian and references a number of Arabic sources on Somali history. This document has not been adequately referenced in English speaking sources and is one of the few original sources for Somali history.

Here is a link:
http://abtirsi.com/Cerulli.pdf

I have tried to OCR a section of the Arabic text on Abubakr ibn Fakhruddiin

In the name of his people, the man of mercy, this is the story of the shrine. I know that the people of the shrine were
Forty of them are mentally ill. I am ten of the towns and ten of them
Qahtan ibn Wail built the city of al-Muqtadi and cut down his lawn before the tribes
After that, they dwelt in order for the tribes to be with them, that the people of the sons of Qahtan were greater
The tribes even made the tribes and consulted Lubna Qahtan, the people of Sheikh Faqih Abur
And they agreed to make them a judge and an imam of the sons of Qahtan ibn Wail
If they are mentioned in the people, they are three hundred years old, and after that a man came over
So Abu Bakr ibn Fakhr al-Din paid a hundred dirham and did not have that money
So they rejoiced and called him, and they went to their families. When he arrived at his house, his wife missed him
He changed his color and said to him, "My husband, I see from you today sad and so on
I saw you changing the color and yellowing of the face from any branch, and he said to her, O husband, that I was in
And there came a poor man, and there was no shea, and no one came until the sheikh of Elijah came up
Hussain and Nashkna 4 Moses and Asal him Shamma Shamr pray myself until we remind them
And that is what saddened me. She said, I know what he said to her. He is one hundred of their house, as she said to him
He gave him a hundred dirhams, and he gave them money
He said to his servant, "Wash my clothes." Then he arrived at the sea and washed clothes and went back to Muwal
He said to his servant: "Do you have a piece of amber?" He said to him, "Sir."
There is none with me, but I think this is the mountain on which the garments were washed
And he looked, and behold, he was an ark, and all his heart was with the help of men, and from him, and our elder was very strong
Haj Tabari used to place the Koran in the night at once, and then the dawn and the night burst
I did not break the dawn until five seals and think and marvel that night, then finger and collect
Abu Bakr ibn al-Din al-'Anbar in his house was known in the city and afterwards
1 quarter of the corner of Jagua and Nancho-Roa, that they should make authority, and we shall accept the pride of the religion;
And the tribes shall fight against each other, and every tribe shall be revived, and this is strange
How can our sultan be what has been our authority since three hundred years
We have turned to Lunahah for the sons of Qahtan, for I am deserving of them that they were our judges and our sinners
And Fakhr al-Din said: I am Irbid, whom Shea has made for the sons of Qahtan;
Parents do not sell land to their families and increase this as our mothers have been forced to do
They said, "Here is a stranger," he said, "but you do not bind us and agree to him and call him the city."
If our Shaykh Fakih heard that Hajji Tabri was the case, the book would be folded and he would explain it to him
She said that the kings, if they entered the boat, spoiled it, and then they brought him forty chariots and carried him away
To another country, the Sultan, and this time the people of Makdashi wrote

OCR is probably erroneous in many places. [/ QUOTE]

Qahtani dynasty begins 1600?

 

[Grant]

[QUOTE = "James Dahl, post: 1205823, member: 3053"] This document is written in Italian and references a number of Arabic sources on Somali history. This document has not been adequately referenced in English speaking sources and is one of the few original sources for Somali history.

Here is a link:
http://abtirsi.com/Cerulli.pdf

I have tried to OCR a section of the Arabic text on Abubakr ibn Fakhruddiin

In the name of his people, the man of mercy, this is the story of the shrine. I know that the people of the shrine were
Forty of them are mentally ill. I am ten of the towns and ten of them
Qahtan ibn Wail built the city of al-Muqtadi and cut down his lawn before the tribes
After that, they dwelt in order for the tribes to be with them, that the people of the sons of Qahtan were greater
The tribes even made the tribes and consulted Lubna Qahtan, the people of Sheikh Faqih Abur
And they agreed to make them a judge and an imam of the sons of Qahtan ibn Wail
If they are mentioned in the people, they are three hundred years old, and after that a man came over
So Abu Bakr ibn Fakhr al-Din paid a hundred dirham and did not have that money
So they rejoiced and called him, and they went to their families. When he arrived at his house, his wife missed him
He changed his color and said to him, "My husband, I see from you today sad and so on
I saw you changing the color and yellowing of the face from any branch, and he said to her, O husband, that I was in
And there came a poor man, and there was no shea, and no one came until the sheikh of Elijah came up
Hussain and Nashkna 4 Moses and Asal him Shamma Shamr pray myself until we remind them
And that is what saddened me. She said, I know what he said to her. He is one hundred of their house, as she said to him
He gave him a hundred dirhams, and he gave them money
He said to his servant, "Wash my clothes." Then he arrived at the sea and washed clothes and went back to Muwal
He said to his servant: "Do you have a piece of amber?" He said to him, "Sir."
There is none with me, but I think this is the mountain on which the garments were washed
And he looked, and behold, he was an ark, and all his heart was with the help of men, and from him, and our elder was very strong
Haj Tabari used to place the Koran in the night at once, and then the dawn and the night burst
I did not break the dawn until five seals and think and marvel that night, then finger and collect
Abu Bakr ibn al-Din al-'Anbar in his house was known in the city and afterwards
1 quarter of the corner of Jagua and Nancho-Roa, that they should make authority, and we shall accept the pride of the religion;
And the tribes shall fight against each other, and every tribe shall be revived, and this is strange
How can our sultan be what has been our authority since three hundred years
We have turned to Lunahah for the sons of Qahtan, for I am deserving of them that they were our judges and our sinners
And Fakhr al-Din said: I am Irbid, whom Shea has made for the sons of Qahtan;
Parents do not sell land to their families and increase this as our mothers have been forced to do
They said, "Here is a stranger," he said, "but you do not bind us and agree to him and call him the city."
If our Shaykh Fakih heard that Hajji Tabri was the case, the book would be folded and he would explain it to him
She said that the kings, if they entered the boat, spoiled it, and then they brought him forty chariots and carried him away
To another country, the Sultan, and this time the people of Makdashi wrote

OCR is probably erroneous in many places. [/ QUOTE]


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Qahtani dynasty begins 1600?

Typo: 1600 should be 1301.

 

[James Dahl]

Google translate mangles the text quite badly, and the OCR didn't do a very good job, I'll try and find a different OCR option.

If by Qahtani you mean the republic, 1300 is hilariously late. The republic started in 917

 

[Grant]

Google translate mangles the text quite badly, and the OCR didn't do a very good job, I'll try and find a different OCR option.

If by Qahtani you mean the republic, 1300 is hilariously late. The republic started in 917

 

[James Dahl]

That timeline is all wrong, it mixes up the Shirazi with the republic, the Shirazi followed Abu Bakr ibn Fakhr ad-Din which followed the republic.

That timeline is all wrong and the facts are all wrong. Yes the Mogadishu republic was led by a Qadi from the lineage of Qahtan ibn Wa'il but it wasn't a theocracy it was a republic with the great families ruling as senators. It didn't start in 1300 it started in 917 and ended in the mid 13th century when Fakhr ad-Din became first Sultan. The timeline conflates Abu Bakr ibn Umar with Abu Bakr ibn Fakhr ad-Din and places him nearly a century later.

The Adal timeline, 1445 Badlay won the war against the Abyssinian Empire and secured Adal's independence but the writer makes it out to be a defeat.

God this timeline sucks