Dombiro (), was a Somali historical figure known for being the wife of the progenitor of the

Darod The Darod (, ) is a Somali clan. The forefather of this clan is Sheikh Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, more commonly known as Darod. The clan primarily settles the apex of the Horn of Africa and its peripheries, the Somali hinterlands adjacent ...

clan, Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Jabarti.

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During the 10th CE,I.M. Lewis, ''A Modern History of the Somali'', fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 22 Dombiro married Sheikh

Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, () also known as Daarood, Dawud or Da'ud (), is the semi-legendary common ancestor of the Somalis, Somali Darod clan and the Harla people. According to local tradition, Abdirahman descended from Aqil ibn Abi T ...

(Darod), a son of the

Sufi Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...

Sheikh Isma'il al-Jabarti of the

Qadiriyyah The Qadiriyya () or the Qadiri order () is a Sunni Sufi order (''Tariqa'') founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, also transliterated ''Jilani''), who was a Hanbali scholar from Gilan, Iran. The order, with its many sub-orders, is wides ...

order, who had settled in

Somaliland Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...

just across the

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

. The union is said to have given rise to the

clan family. Dombiro was the daughter of Dagale (Dikalla), the Dir clan chief at the time whereas other historical works plainly mention Dombira to be the daughter of

Hawiye The Hawiye (; ) are one of the principal and largest of the Somali clans, tracing their lineage back to Sheikh Ahmed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Uthman, also known as Sheikh Hawiye, the eponymous figure of the clan. They are considered the earliest do ...

. By marrying Dombiro, Darod established links with the

Samaale Samaale, also spelled Samali or Samale () is traditionally considered to be the common forefather of several major Somali clans and their respective sub-clans. His name is the source of the ethnonym ''Somali''.. As the purported ancestor of most ...

stem. However, the origin of Dombiro is disputed, some say she was from another background, such as Harla. Some sources state the early people to whom Dombiro belonged to were the Harla who lived in the region before the arrival of Somalis. Lewis, ''A pastoral democracy'', pp. 11–13. Dombiro is buried just outside the ancient town of Haylaan in the

Sanaag Sanag (, ) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in north eastern Somaliland.Regions of Somalia
Sa ...

region of

where Sheikh Darod's tomb is also located.

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Dōmbira daughter of Dagāle
10th-century African people Ethnic Somali people 10th-century women

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