Irir Samaale

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Irir Samaale (var. Irir Samali) is the oldest common ancestor to several Somali clans and their respective subclans:[1]

Some of the Somali population claims descent from Samaale.[1][2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, I. M.; Said Samatar (1999). A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa. LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 11-13. ISBN 3825830845. 
  2. ^ Ahmed, Ali Jimale (1995). The invention of Somalia. The Red Sea Press, 117-123. ISBN 0932415997. 


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