Mohamed Haji Mukhtar

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Mohamed Haji Mukhtar (Ph. D. Al-Azhar University) is Professor of African & Middle Eastern History at Savannah State University, Savannah Georgia. Professor Mukhtar has written scholarly works on the history and sociology of Somalia and Islam. Mukhtar is also known as an advocate of the use of Afmaay (the Somali-dialect of the Rahanweyn).

Mr.Mukhtar is the son of highly respected Chief of Digil and Mirifle, Malak Mukhtar Malak Hassan. Mohamed Haji Mukhtar is from the Leysan subclan, one of the larger clans of Digil and Mirifle. He was born in Koorkoor village of Bakool region. He speaks Somali (Maay and Maxaatiri), Italian, Arabic, English, French and Malay.

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On history and historiography

Historical Dictionary of Somalia, New Edition (2003)
Somali Responses to Colonial Occupation (The Inter-Riverine Case) in Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Contested Nationalism and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Somalia, edited by Abdi Kusow (2004),
Arabic Sources on Somalia, in: History in Africa 14 (1987).

On the spread of Islam

Islam in Somali History: Fact and Fiction, in: The Invention of Somalia, edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed (1995).

On politics

The Plight of the Agro-Pastoral Society of Somalia," in Review of African Political Economy 70 (1996)
The Emergence and Role of Political Parties in the Inter-River Region of Somalia From 1947-1960, in: Ufahamu 17, no. 2 (1989);

On reconciliation

Somalia: Searching for the Foundation of Social and Civil Morality," in The Proceedings of the 6th Somali Studies International Association, edited by Jorg Janzen (2001) "Somalia: Between Self Determination and Chaos," in Mending Rips in the Sky, edited by Hussein Adam and Richard Ford (1997).