What is the oldest Somali gabay?

[mohammdov]

The oldest Somali poems
It goes back 300 years There is no older than this as i know
The oldest gabay where
For Ogaadeen ugaases And it was around 1760.
Then some poems For reer cabdi ciise When they got the Sultanat of Isaaq
And it was in 1790 to 1810
Then after that came Abwaano like liibaan jedar and raage ugaas and wiil waal ,Mataan-ciideed, xarsi boqon, gabay xoog, nuur tayo, And they lived in the period between 1800 to 1880
Post 1880 is not unknown And it is known
Do you guys know poems older than 1800 ?
The problem is that only the Ogaden and Isaaq have preserved some of the ancient poems. Most of the ancient Somali poetry has been lost.

This is one of the problems of the Somalis not writing history

 

[Hamzza]

According to Suugaanyayan Idaaaja the earliest Somali Gabays that reached us are some of Xaaji Ali Majeerteens(d 1840s) poems

Here is one of them

 

[mohammdov]

According to Suugaanyayan Idaaaja the earliest Somali Gabays that reached us are some of Xaaji Ali Majeerteens(d 1840s) poems

Here is one of them
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Not the oldest gabay there is gabay between cali and gabayxoog and gabayxoog died in 1912

 

[mohammdov]

@Hamzza that isn't

 

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

The oldest Somali poems
It goes back 300 years There is no older than this as i know
The oldest gabay where
For Ogaadeen ugaases And it was around 1760.
Then some poems For reer cabdi ciise When they got the Sultanat of Isaaq
And it was in 1790 to 1810
Then after that came Abwaano like liibaan jedar and raage ugaas and wiil waal ,Mataan-ciideed, xarsi boqon, gabay xoog, nuur tayo, And they lived in the period between 1800 to 1880
Post 1880 is not unknown And it is known
Do you guys know poems older than 1800 ?
The problem is that only the Ogaden and Isaaq have preserved some of the ancient poems. Most of the ancient Somali poetry has been lost.

This is one of the problems of the Somalis not writing history

Could you expand on the following:
a) Ogaadeen ugaases
b) Sultanat of Isaaq

 

[mohammdov]

Could you expand on the following:
a) Ogaadeen ugaases
b) Sultanat of Isaaq

I mean those two families reer ugaas cabdi ciise and reer ugaas warfa (Ogden)
They have preserved the gabay of their awoow who lived in the period between 1750 to 1810
Like ugaas nuur cbudhiye who lived in 1750 He launched major raids on the Ormo and Somali tribes as well
And cabdi ciise He lived in his time. He and his sons so this is are the oldest known Somali gabay