Somalis Kingdoms and Sultanates?

[Idilinaa]

How is he so sure that badda is located in nugal tho?

He said that he calculated distance from the coast based on details of locations given by Ibn Said or Al-Idrisi like how many days it took to reach the place and people in the area still call it Bada which the ruins are located next to a giant lake

 

[Midas]

He said that he calculated distance from the coast based on details of locations given by Ibn Said or Al-Idrisi like how many days it took to reach the place and people in the area still call it Bada which the ruins are located next to a giant lake

Do we have any chronicles from the majteertan sultanate or these other city states. Has anything been found?

 

[Idilinaa]

Do we have any chronicles from the majteertan sultanate or these other city states. Has anything been found?

We have founding of the sultanate , list of the kings starting from Uthman Mahamuud I and old commercial and diplomatic contracts from the sultanate . Mainly because these were the ones given to explorers like Revoil and Guillaine who visited in the 1800s.

There is also was a copy of a manuscript from a Majerteen Abaan given to Leuitenant Speke chronicle of Darud bin Ismail (1413) and narrating his arrival after collecting a strong party defeating the local rulers, Sultan named Kin, and Wazir named Wharrah. But we only have small reference to it and secondary orientalist take on it tho.

No idea if there is more that can be found in private hands, i would assume there should be.

 

[Midas]

We have founding of the sultanate , list of the kings starting from Uthman Mahamuud I and old commercial and diplomatic contracts from the sultanate . Mainly because these were the ones given to explorers like Revoil and Guillaine who visited in the 1800s.

There is also was a copy of a manuscript from a Majerteen Abaan given to Leuitenant Speke chronicle of Darud bin Ismail (1413) and narrating his arrival after collecting a strong party defeating the local rulers, Sultan named Kin, and Wazir named Wharrah. But we only have small reference to it and secondary orientalist take on it tho.

No idea if there is more that can be found in private hands, i would assume there should be.

I would honestly love to read these chronicles to see if there is some sort of shared sonalis mythos or maybe sort of somali kingship ideaology contained in them. Im assuming they contain a bunch of insights that could shed light on somali traditions/customs.


Its insane to me that nobody has tried to collect these chronicles to piece together a national historiography. I mean look at how much effort was put into swahili historiography which doesn't have the kind of chronicles we have available.