Who was Aw Jaamac?

[Ayubi]

I heard this guy who some people call a "Historian" and "Scholar" changed a lot of history like the dervishes to fit his own qabiilist narrative? what do you know about him and what was his motives for corrupting Somali history?

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[madaxweyne]

I heard this guy who some people call a "Historian" and "Scholar" changed a lot of history like the dervishes to fit his own qabiilist narrative? what do you know about him and what was his motives for corrupting Somali history?

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ive heard a lot of ridiculous claims about the darawiish but since the darawiish were in conflict with the british a lot of non-biased white historians will make sure the true narrative stays as it is. Most darawiish history is compiled by mainly western historians anyway so theirs nothing to worry about

 

[Veteran]

Aw Jama Omar Issa commonly known as Aw Jaamac, was a Somali scholar, historian and collector of oral literature of Somalia. He wrote the first authoritative study of Dervishes
Here is his book..
https://books.google.se/books/about/Divine_madness.html?id=EOhyAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

 

[Nalle]

Is this the reason why they say “aw jaamac baan ku dhaartay”? I’ve come across this Jaamac before and asked several times what is “Kutubka aw jaamac”, didn’t really get a good answer to it.
Interesting thread

 

[shum33]

The biggest kacaan revisionist