Hasna Doreh حسناء دوريه |
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Hasna Doreh (Somali language: Xasna Dooreeh , Arabic language: حسناء دوريه) was an early 20th-century Somali female devotee to the Dervish Kingdom of Diiriye Guure, a state which frequently engaged in battles against the imperial powers during the Somaliland campaign. Female inhabitants of the Dervish kingdom of Diiriye Guure such as her were referred to as Darwiishaad or Darawiishaad.[1]
Biography[]
Doreh was the wife and commander of the leading emir of Diiriye Guure's Dervish kingdom, namely Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the latter of whom nominally assigned her one of the nine divisions of the Dervish army.[2]
In his biography of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan and Hassan's Dervish comrades, the author Ray Beachey compared Doreh to the ancient British Queen Boadicea in her struggle against the Roman Empire.
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References[]
- Beachey, R. W. (1990). The warrior mullah: the Horn aflame, 1892-1920. Bellew. ISBN 0-947792-43-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=9LxyAAAAMAAJ.
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