Religious leaders •
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz alAmawī, was a scholar following the Shāfi'ī school of jurisprudence and was also adviser to several sultans of Zanzibar • Sheikh Abubakar Sheikh Muhiyiddiin, senior Qadi of Mogadishu like his father Sheikh Muhiyidin Moalim Mukarram and high-ranking cleric for twenty years. He is the one who supplied rare and precious documents to Cerulli which enabled him (Cerulli) to reconstruct the history of the Arabs in the Benadir. A primary document of which was the Book of the Zeng, but the antique documents came from the archives of the grandfather, Moalim Mukarram, who died 1850 • Al-sheikh Mohammad Yahya Ala'deen bin Moallim Mukaram, senior Qadi in Mogadihsu and the teacher of Sheikh Abba from whom he learned the book Matin Abi Shuja • Shaykh Abi-Bakar Bin Mihdaar, buried in Warsheekh about 70 km from Mogadishu. Pre civil war he's gravesight was a place of pilgrimage for Sufi adherents but in November 2010. Was the teacher of ulema such as
Abd al-Raḥman bin Aḥmad al-Zaylaʽi and many more. • Aw Osman Hassan, also known as
Aw Usmaan Marki. Synonymous with the Benadiri town of Merca where there's saying "Merca 'Aday Mininka Aw Osman", which translates to as "White Merca House of Aw Osman" He is venerated in not only Marka but all over Lower Shabelle, there is a mosque named after him in the beginning of the city when coming from the former port where annual ziyaaros happen for Aw Usmaan. It is said that the Shaykh had died in the year 1560. • Aw Faqi Aboor,
Faqih Shaykh Ahmed bin Faqih Abubakar bin Faqih Abhajj more commonly known as
Aw Faqi Aboor. Is the most celebrated ancestor of the
Reer Faqi's where an annual ziyaaro is done for him for 15 days annually where quran is read along with traditional practices. He's graveyard is to the west of
Boondheere not too far from
Villa Somalia. • Shaykh Mohammad Ba Hassan, The ancestor of the notorious
Shiikhaal Jasiira clan and the master of 'Ilm al-Asraar ("secret knowledge"), whose shrine is visited even today in Jazira a town, south of Mogadishu. • Shaykh Ahmed Haaji Malaaq, Religious reformer and opponent of Italian colonial conquest. Unlike his counterparts, who usually preached in masjid that were locally based or identified with a tariqa (order), Sheikh Mohhadi lectured in masjid in diverse quarters of Mogadishu, such as the
Jamaa Xamar Weyne',
Fakhruddin,
Arba' Rukun, and
Shingani masjid. He was well known for his anti-colonial stance expressed in his khutbah (Friday sermons). In 1889, he condemned the Italo-Zanzibar treaties, which handed over the Banadir ports, including Mogadishu, and the inland territory to the Italians as colonial possessions. To show his holy defiance, he abandoned Mogadishu, darul kufr (the place of the infidels), in what he called a hijra (thus, replicating the Prophet's Hijra to Medina) to Nimow, about 15 kilometers north of Jazira on the coast, which he proclaimed darul Islam). There he established the Jama'adda Nimow (the Nimow Brotherhood). Buried at Warabaale on the way to
Afgooye, about 16 km from
Mogadishu • Shaykh Mahad Nur Diinlow, the teacher of Sheikh Sufi and father of Shaykh Ahmad bin Hajji Mahad Al Muqdishi, who was mentioned in the biography of Shaykh Uways al-Barawi mentioning him as being one of the most prominent Qadirriys Khulfa • Shaykh Mohamud Hassan, the ancestor of the Reer Ma'ow (Ba Muqtar) clan of the
Reer Maanyo confederacy and annual festival is held for him. •
Shaykh Sufi,
Abd Al-Rahman bin Abdullah al Shashi (
Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الشاشي) (b. 1829 - 1904), popularly known as
Sheikh Sufi, was a 19th-century
Somali scholar,
poet,
reformist and
astrologist. An annual festival is held for him in the Koodka neighbourhood of
Hamar Weyne. • Sheikh Abba, for the latter part of the twentieth century
Sheikh Mahamed Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahamud al-Shashy, popularly known as Sheikh Abba, was a leading member of the
Mogadisho 'ulama, a follower of the
Qadiriyya tariqa and a foremost sheikh of
Hamar Weyne. •
Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Qaḥṭānī al-Wāʾilī (c. 1790–1869) was a
Bravanese who became chief
Shāfiʿī qāḍī of
Zanzibar. He was the author of poems in
Arabic and
Swahili and other works, including one on
tawḥīd and a commentary on
al-Nawawīʾs Minḥāj al-Ṭālibīn. •
Sheikh Nureini Ahmed Sabiri Al Hatimi, (died December 1909), a member of the
Hatimi group of
Brava, was an influential ʿālim who served as qāḍī during the reign of Sultan
Barghash of
Zanzibar and during the very first period of Italian colonial rule. A specialist in fiqh, Sheikh Nureni also composed qaṣāʾid in Arabic. Under the influence of his teacher Shaykh Maḥmūd Waʿays he became a follower of the
Aḥmadiyyah. He had close relations of friendship with Sheikh Uways and
Dada Masiti, both affiliated with the
Qādiriyyah, and became the teacher of Mallim Nuri. •
Uways Al Barawi,
Sheikh Uways b. Mohamed b. Mahadh al-Qādirī (c. 1847–1909) was the foremost sheikh of the
Qādiriyyah in Somalia and teacher of Sheikh Qasim • Sheikh Qasim Muhyiddin Maie Omar, widely known as
Qāsim b. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Barāwī (1882–1922) was a
Bravanese ʿālim. After studying with the Qādirī
sheikhs Uways and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallah al-Shāshī ("
Sheikh Sufi"), he became a prominent member and propagator of the
Qādiriyyah. An accomplished Arabist, he left an impressive production of religious poems in
Arabic and in
Chimiini. Some of the latter compositions are translations of
Arabic texts. •
Shaykh Ahmed Muhiyyidin, was the teacher of
Shaykh Sufi from whom he received his ijaza on the qaddiriyah tariqa. • Sheikh Mahamuud Sh.Abdulrahman Sh. Ahmed, the paternal grandfather of Sheikh Abba and early teacher of the Sheikh. • Sheikh Abdul Majeed Sheikh Mohammad Sheikh Sufi, the grandson of
Sheikh Sufi and the teacher/mentor of Sheikh Abba after the death of his grandfather. Taught out of the
Awooto Eeday mosque in
Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu. • Shaykh Mohamed Shaykh Ali Maye, son of the revered Sufi saint Shaykh Ali Maye, buried in Boondhere, Mogadishu •
Sharif 'Aydarus, a famous scholar of Islamic and Somali history and pan-Islamic leader.
Sheikh qulatayn bin mudhir al nadhiri From Barawe
Politics •
Bur'i Mohamed Hamza, was a Somali-Canadian politician. From August 2012 to January 2014, he was a Member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia. He later served as the State Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia from January to October 2014, and subsequently as the State Minister of Finance until December 2014. He was the State Minister of the Premier's Office for Environment at the time of his death. • Haji Mohamed Hussien, popular pan-Somalist, founder of the
Greater Somali League (GSL) in 1958, one of the 13 founders of the
Somali Youth Club in 1943 •
Jeylani Nur Ikar •
Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, current Petroleum minister of the Federal Government of Somalia and former minister of Commerce and industry. • Mohamed Ahmed Raajis, Human rights activist and lawyer, prominent Banadiri political opposition leader 1960-2000s and representative of the Benadiris in the reconciliation conferences during the 90s and the early 2000s. Died in Nairobi, Kenya was head of the SNU party before his death • Dhere Haji Dheere, one of 13 SYL founders. • Fahma Mohamed Nuur, Lawyer, politician, parliament member since 2000, member of the federal constitutional committee, held various federal government ministers since 2000-
Sports •
Ramla Ali, current African Featherweight Champion and the first boxer in history to have won a boxing title whilst representing
Somalia. • Muhidin Abubakar, currently ranked as the number one amateur flyweight MMA fighter in the UK and Ireland.
Film •
Abdulkadir Ahmed Said, is a prominent
Somali film director,
producer,
screenwriter,
cinematographer and
editor Art •
Amin Amir (
Somali:
Amiin Caamir,
Arabic: أمين أمير) is a
Somali-
Canadian cartoonist and painter •
Omar Nor Basharah (
Somali:
Cumar Nuur Baasharax,
Arabic: عمرنور باشرح ) is a
Somali songer ==See also==