Define Darwiish Meaning

The Darwiish (1900 - 1920) was the successor state to the Dhulbahante garaadship (1550 - 1900) that was initially centered in the Wardheer, Cayn Sool and Maakhir regions but later expanded during the anti-colonial campaigns to encompass much of the Horn, only to be defeated in 1920 but British air power

The Darwiish State was an anti-imperial state which was overwhelmingly composed of Dhulbahante and commanded by Ismail Mire

A member of the Dhulbahante tribe, particularly the Ahmed Garaad branch

The 1908 border proposal from the Sayyid of Darwiish to the British colonial administrator Harry Cordeaux. The British government informally agreed to the borders via its "coastal concentration policy" whereby it withdrew from all areas claimed by the Sayyid.

Any of the post 1921 Dhulbahante-dominant administrations ranging from the Jaamac Tilifoon era, to Koosafaare Dacay's Darwiish reincarnation in the 60s, to the first USP, then 2nd USP, to the Northern Somali Unionist Movement (NSUM), the subsequent SSC State, the Northland State, the Khatumo State or the Falaaluug movement in the 2010s.

The term 'darwiishes' is an archaic term to describe Dhulbahante people

The term "Darwiish clan" usually refers to the Dhulbahante

To have sired offspring with a Dhulbahante person

Darwiishing means you get enganed or married to a Dhulbahante

Darwiishism means being in favor of a separate aamul goboleed for the Dhulbahante, or by extension, for the Western Harti