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Habr Awal
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The Awal, also contemporarily known as the Habr Awal, Subeer Awal , and alternately known as the Zubeyr Awal (Somali: Habar Awal, Arabic: هبر أول, Full Name: Zubeyr ibn Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ash-Shaykh Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad)[1] is one of the largest subclans of the wider Isaaq clan family, and is further divided into eight sub-clans of whom the two largest and most prominent are the Isamusa and Sa'ad Musa sub-clans. Its members form a part of the Habar Magadle confederation.
Habar Awal زبير اول | |
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Isaaq Clan | |
![]() Habr Awal Sultan Abdulrahman Deria in London 1955 to petition for the Haud Reserve Area | |
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Descended from | Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed bin Muhammad |
Parent tribe | Isaaq |
Branches | Isamusa:
Sa'ad Musa:
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Religion | Sunni Islam |
The Habr Awal traditionally consists of nomadic pastoralists, coastal people, merchants and farmers. They are historically viewed as an affluent clan in the horn africa that played a huge part for Somaliland's independence.[2] The Habar Awal are politically and economically influential in present-day Somaliland as well as the Horn of Africa at large, and they reside in strategic coastal and fertile lands.[3][4]