Family and clan
Somali clan tree: Dir
This page lists every Dir group in Jan Abbink's Total Somali Clan Genealogy (2009) and ACLED's 2025 clan list, in each source's own placement. It is one part of the Somali clan tree.
This page is one part of the Somali clan tree. It gives the Dir section of each source in full. For history, places and records, see the 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). 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?)
- 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
- Mahadleh
- Walal Doon (Haula Gati)
- Mekahir
- 'Idleh
- Mahamud
- Fourlaba (Holleh)
- Eliye
- Mamasan
- Omr
- Hassan
- Aur
- Abdarrahman
- Khaireh
- Mohorre
- Musa
- Sa'ad
- Reer Gedi
- Bideh
- Yunis
- Mahamud
- Reer Hubla
- Sa'ad
- Mamasan
- Hawla Gati (Abgal?)
- Horone
- Habr Walal
- Galalla
- Barrah
- 'Idleh
- Awse
- Gelwalal
- Abdalla
- Adan
- Abdalla
- Galalla
- Ohdagub
- Reer Ma'alin
- Ashkir(a)
- Habr Walal
- Wardikh
- Urweina
- Fiqi
- Abdalla
- 'Isa
- Mandaloog
- Gadabursi
- 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
- Dera
- Elli
- Abdalla
- Weid
- Musa
- Hassan
- Gedi
- Kamis
- Weid
- Egeh
- Hassan
- Musa
- Mahad Assa
- Adan
- Hussein
- Musa
- Aadan
- Maris
- Usman
- Mohammed
- Abokor
- Barreh
- Abdalla
- Se'ed
- Mahakil
- Reer Ugaas (Abbink: the ancestors between this group and the one above are left out)
- Bimaal
- Da'ud
- Soliman
- Yasmin
- Boras
- Sa'ad
- Habr Afan (Samaroon)
- Gadabursi
- Mahdaweyn
- Gurgura
- Akisho
- Gariir
- Layiile
- Guure
- Reer Awsad
- 'Ali (Warday)
- Gurgura
- Maahe
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
- Omar
- Samaroon Reer Dudub
- Warday
Download
Every row here is also in somali-clan-tree.csv, which you can download from the main tree page.
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Sources
- Abbink, The Total Somali Clan Genealogy, 2009, p. 7 · hdl.handle.net
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