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Aadan-Gurey Maxamed Cabdille
Aadan-Gurey Maxamed Cabdille (1840 to 1920) was a Somali poet from Galgaduud whose poem Todobaatan iyo Toban (Seventy and Ten) appeared in the first printed collection of early Somali poetry. Only five or six of his poems survive, and some are taught in Somali secondary schools.
Aadan-Gurey Maxamed CabdilleAadan-Gureey Maxamed Cabdille · Aadan-Gurey Mohamed Abdille
- Lived
- 1840 to 1920
- Known as one of
- Poets and writers
- Era
- 1500 to 1884; Partition and the Dervishes, 1884 to 1920
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Who was he?
Aadan-Gurey Maxamed Cabdille (Aadan-Gurey Mohamed Abdille) was a Somali poet who lived from 1840 to 1920 (Wikipedia). He was born in the Galgaduud region and spent much of his life in the Ximan area between Galkacyo and Abudwak (same source). At times he also led fighters in clan feuds over grazing land between the Nugaal valley, Mudug and Galgaduud (same source).
Poetry
He began composing in his twenties and thirties and was an established poet by the 1870s (Wikipedia). His best-known poem, Todobaatan iyo Toban ("Seventy and Ten"), was printed in the first book collecting early Somali poems (same source). With no written Somali at the time, only five or six of his poems survive, among them Ab Hareeri and Angarafareey (same source).
He died in 1920, the same year as Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan; the two did not know each other's work (same source). Several of his poems are in Somali high school textbooks (same source). See Somali poetry.
In short
A nineteenth-century Galgaduud poet whose few surviving verses are still taught in Somali schools.
Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Aadan-Gurey Maxamed CabdilleAadan-Gureey Maxamed Cabdille · Aadan-Gurey Mohamed Abdille
- Lived
- 1840 to 1920
- Known as one of
- Poets and writers
- Era
- 1500 to 1884; Partition and the Dervishes, 1884 to 1920
- Sources
- 1 sources
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