@Abba Sadacha @AfranQallo @James Dahl
Give me some famous Oromo figures and tell me about them. Preferably the Muslim ones would be nice.
Give me some famous Oromo figures and tell me about them. Preferably the Muslim ones would be nice.
@Abba Sadacha @AfranQallo @James Dahl
Give me some famous Oromo figures and tell me about them. Preferably the Muslim ones would be nice.
I don't know enough to really opine on this subject, but I can talk a little about Oromo leadership.
Under the Oromo system there is a new Gadaa every 8 years, after which point the ruling Gadaa retires and the next "generation" of Gadaa takes over.
Here is a list of the Borana Abba Gadaa list (some names written in Ge'ez)
http://www.oromedia.net/gadaa/የቦረና-ኦሮሞ-አባ-ገዳዎች/
Gada means people and Buuri means mountain. Gadabuursi translates to 'people of the mountain'.Gada means the same thing in old Somali as it does in Oromo, because the languages have the same origin. Gada is not a word in modern Somali but it used to mean what it means in Oromo, a type of sub-society or something along those lines. Gada Bursi basically means maximized Gada.
The Gada system was probably originally used by Somalis the way it's used by Rendille, Oromo and Gedeo peoples, but over time was put aside in favour of more Arab style clan kingdoms with hereditary monarchs. The more egalitarian nature of the Somali clan compared to the Arab clan is probably a relic of this past.
Umar Bakkalcha (1953? - 1980) was one of the early Oromo nationalists and martyrs well-remembered in the Chercher highlands of Harerghe especially for the heroic speeches he made at his death spot. His name had been Umar Sheikh Mohammed Rabi, but the people usually refer to him as “Umar Bakkalcha” or simply “Bakkalcha” (the downfall star).
As he was born in a family known chiefly for propagation of Islamic teachings, Bakkalcha had a good access to learn Qur’an and other basic Islamic educations. Nassir Sheikh Muhammed Siraj, a cousin of Bakkalcha, told to the writer of this article (Aladdin Alevi)[citation needed] once that Bakkalcha had attended the Shafi’i Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) lessons until he completed a book called Baa-Fadl (the third Fiqh book in the Islamic teaching tradition that existed in Harerghe) but others dispute this and say rather Bakkalcha had attended more than that.
Gada means people and Buuri means mountain. Gadabuursi translates to 'people of the mountain'.
@James Dahl
James, Do you know what clan the "Habar Magaadle" that was mentioned in the Futuh is now?
The Futuh actually says Habar Maqdi. The fact that it's Habar Maqdi makes both the Isaaq and the Gadabursi claim difficult to accept. The Gadabursi because the Habar is there, and the Isaaq case because Maqdi isn't really all that close to Magadle. Also if it was either of those clans, the leaders mentioned in the Futuh would be easily recognizable and they're not. So yeah personally I think the Habar Maqdi are probably an extremely obscure clan today, most of the clans who participated in the Jihad paid the price and are a shadow of their former selves today.