# Somali clan tree: Dir

> Every Dir clan, sub-clan and lineage in Abbink 2009 and ACLED 2025, level by level, as one part of the Somali clan tree.

Source page: https://calankii.com/en/society/somali-clan-tree-dir/
Last checked: 2026-11-12
Publisher: Calankii (https://calankii.com)

This page is one part of [the Somali clan tree](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/). It gives the Dir section of each source in full. For history, places and records, see the [Dir](/en/society/dir/) page.

## How to read it

Spellings are the source's own. In Abbink's tree, a name with a question mark "could not be confirmed from more than one source", in his words. His sign -/- means "intervening ancestors or nodes in a line are omitted". Here such a line is marked as having ancestors left out ([Abbink, *The Total Somali Clan Genealogy*, 2009, p. 7](https://hdl.handle.net/1887/14007)). Each indent is one level down: clan, sub-clan, lineage, then the diya-paying group.

## Abbink's tree

Dir groups as Abbink charts them.

- Madoobe
  - 'Isa
    - Hawla Gati ([Abgal](/en/society/abgaal/)?)
      - Mekahir
      - Idleh
      - Mahamud
        - Hassan
        - Abokor
          - Yusuf
          - 'Ali
    - Dalool (Abbink: "could not be confirmed from more than one source")
      - Fourlaba (Holleh)
        - Mahadleh
          - Birbore
          - Abokor
        - Saheb
          - Ahmed
          - Eli
      - Walal Doon (Haula Gati)
        - Mekahir
        - 'Idleh
        - Mahamud
    - Eliye
      - Mamasan
        - Omr
        - Hassan
        - Aur
          - Abdarrahman
        - Khaireh
        - Mohorre
      - Musa
        - [Sa'ad](/en/society/sacad-habar-gidir/)
          - Reer Gedi
        - Bideh
        - Yunis
          - Mahamud
          - Reer Hubla
  - Horone
    - Habr Walal
      - Galalla
        - Barrah
        - 'Idleh
        - Awse
      - Gelwalal
        - Abdalla
          - Adan
    - Ohdagub
      - Reer Ma'alin
      - Ashkir(a)
  - Wardikh
  - Urweina
    - Fiqi
    - Abdalla
- Mandaloog
  - [Gadabursi](/en/society/gadabuursi/)
    - Habr Afan (Samaroon)
      - 'Isa
      - Zubeir
        - Mahamed
        - Musa
          - Sa'ad
          - Fin
          - Adan
          - (Reer) Hamud
          - Mahakil
    - Habr Yusuf
    - Gobo
    - Jibrain
    - Hebjirreh
    - 'Ali Ganoon
    - Mikadore
      - Mahakil
        - Musa
          - Dera
            - 'Ali
            - Abokor
            - Musa
        - Elli
        - Abdalla
          - Weid
            - Musa
            - Hassan
            - Gedi
          - Kamis
        - Egeh
          - Hassan
      - [Mahad Assa](/en/society/maxamed-case/)
        - Adan
        - Hussein
        - Musa
          - Aadan
          - Maris
          - Usman
          - Mohammed
        - Abokor
          - Barreh
          - Abdalla
          - Se'ed
    - Reer Ugaas (Abbink: the ancestors between this group and the one above are left out)
    - [Bimaal](/en/society/biyomaal/)
      - Da'ud
    - Soliman
    - Yasmin
      - Boras
    - Sa'ad
- [Mahdaweyn](/en/society/gurgure/)
  - Gurgura
    - Akisho
    - Gariir
    - Layiile
    - Guure
    - Reer Awsad
    - 'Ali (Warday)
- Maahe
  - Hiniftire
    - Gaadsan
    - Dabrube
    - Barsuk
    - Mandeluq
  - Hassan
    - Bajumal
    - Biyamaal
    - Quranyow
    - Isaaq
  - [Suhure](/en/society/surre/)
    - Qubeys
      - Lafagaab
    - 'Abdalle
      - 'Abdi
      - Na'adoor
      - [Suleiman](/en/society/saleebaan-habar-gidir/)
      - Goorad

## ACLED's 2025 list

- Biyamal
- Ciise
  - Mohamoud
- Farah Nur
  - Gadabuursi
- Gadabuursi
- Gadabuursi Makhila
- Gadabuursi Mohamud Noor
- Gadabuursi Reer Mohamud Noor
- Gadsan
- Issa
- Issa Rati
- Qubeys
- [Reer Mahad](/en/society/omar-mahamoud/)
  - Omar
- Samaroon Reer Dudub
- Warday

## Download

Every row here is also in [somali-clan-tree.csv](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/), which you can download from the main tree page.

## Read more

- [The Somali clan tree: every clan and sub-clan](/en/society/somali-clan-tree/)
- [Dir](/en/society/dir/)
- [Somali clans and lineage: how the system works](/en/society/clans-and-lineage/)

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