Hasna Doreh ( so, Xasna Dooreeh, ar, حسناء دوريه) was an early 20th-century
Somali female
commander of the
Dervish State
The Dervish Movement ( so, Dhaqdhaqaaqa Daraawiish) was a popular movement between 1899 and 1920, which was led by the Salihiyya Sufi Muslim poet and militant leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, also known as Sayyid Mohamed, who called for independe ...
, a state which frequently engaged in battles against the
imperial powers during the
Somaliland campaign. Female Darwiish such as her were referred to as ''Darwiishaad'' or ''Darawiishaad''.
Biography
Doreh was the wife and commander of
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan
Sayid Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan ( so, Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan; 1856–1920) was a Somali religious and military leader of the Dervish movement, which led a two-decade long confrontation with various colonial empires including the British, ...
, whom assigned her one of the nine divisions of the
Dervish army.
[Beachey, p.76]
In his biography of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan and Hassan's
Dervish
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from fa, درویش, ''Darvīsh'') in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (''tariqah''), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. The latter usage i ...
comrades, the author
Ray Beachey compared Doreh to the ancient
British
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Queen
Boadicea in her struggle against the
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...
.
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African resistance to colonialism
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20th-century Somalian people
Somalian military leaders
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Women in war 1900–1945
20th-century Somalian women