Dokument #1065074
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
As per our telephone conversation, specific
references to the above-named group could not be found among the
sources currently available to the IRBDC. However, please find
attached some documents (listed below) that may be relevant to your
request.
One of the documents contains the following
entry under the heading "Sundry small tribes & sections":
"Bartire ba Sheikhash, with H. Y. Musa Abdulla, Farah Mohd,
Berbera" (Hunt 1944, 32). No further details on the entry are
provided by the source.
The other documents deal with the role of
religious men, referred to as "sheikh" on an individual basis.
Although the attached section of the Somalia Cultural
Profile of the IRBDC (full text available through your Regional
Documentation Centre) equals the term "wadaad" to "sheikh," the
attached section of Somalia: A Country Study states that the
term "sheikh" is usually reserved for leaders of branches or
congregations and rarely applied to ordinary "wadaddo" (Nelson
1982, 108).
Other attached sections of Somalia: A
Country Study deal with specialized or occupational groups and
their relation to clans and tribes.
The attached section of Mondes en
développement explains that each tribe or community has
a council with a leader and a religious man, referred to in the
text as "buuni sheekh ah" (page 88).
Hunt, John A., ed. 1944. Genealogies
of the Tribes of British Somaliland and the Mijertein. Burao:
British Somaliland General Survey.
Mondes en développement.
1989. Vol. 17. Mohamed, M. A. "Structures verticale et horizontale
de la société somalie."
Nelson, Harold D., ed. 1982. Somalia:
A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: The American University.
Hunt, John A., ed. 1944. Genealogies
of the Tribes of British Somaliland and the Mijertein. Burao:
British Somaliland General Survey, p. 32.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC). June 1991. Somalia: Cultural
Profile - The Nomadic Clans of Somalia: History, Culture, Social
Structure. Ottawa: IRBDC, pp. 8-9.
Lewis, I. M.. 1988. A Modern History
of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa.
London/Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 15-17.
Mondes en développement.
1989. Vol. 17. Mohamed, M. A. "Structures verticale et horizontale
de la société somalie," pp. 87-88.
Nelson, Harold D., ed. 1982. Somalia:
A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: The American University, pp.
84-105, 108.