Sheekhaal Gendershe ( Somali: Benadiri Gendershe

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:شيخال جندرشه) also known as Reer Aw Garweyne are a Benadiri clan, mainly from the southern coastal towns of

Gendershe Gondershe, also known as Gandershe or El Torre, is an ancient landmark on the Somali Sea, as well as a town, in the Lower Shabelle region of South West State of Somalia, Southwest State of Somalia. It is noted for its various historical structures ...

, Marka and

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. The Gendershe have also established communities in the hinterlands in towns such as

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and the villages surrounding it due to trading and farming.

Overview

The Reer

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, who are more commonly known as Sheekhaal Gendershe get their name from the town in which their patriarch first settled in (Gendershe). The tomb of their ancestor Aw Cusmaan Garweyne (big beard) is also buried in this village synonymous with this clan and it's destination of siyaaro (pilgrimages) to venerate their ancestor Aw Cismaan.

Aw Garweyne

Gendershe sub-clans

* Maad-Sheekh * Reer Aw-Ibraahim * Reer Izgoowe * Reer Aw-Muraaf * Naakhude * Gaameedle * Mahri

Descendants

Notable people

* Maxamed Sheekh Jamaal Cabdulaahi,

Mayor of Mogadishu The Mayor of Mogadishu is head of the executive branch of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces laws within the city. Ma ...

from 1956 to 1960 and the first Somali mayor of the city. * Ugaas Cabdulqaadir Xussen - President of Sheekhaal Gendershe Clan * Maxamed Xusseen Cali (Shiiqaalow) - Somali National Football Player * Cabduraxmaan Sheekh Maxamed (Aw Koombe) - Comedian * Jaarlees Cadde - Comedian * Sheekh Maxamed Sh. Cabduraxmaan Abba Xaaji - First Teacher at

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school * Sheekh Cusmaan Sheekh Cabdiqaadir - First Somali Pilot * Maxamed Sheekh Aanis - Somali Singer * Amiinullaahi Maxamed Sh. Jamaal - First Translator for the

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* Sheekh Muxyidiin Sheekh Maxamed Sheekh Isaaq Al Gendershi -

Qadi A qāḍī ( ar, قاضي, Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, cadi, kadi, or kazi) is the magistrate or judge of a '' sharīʿa'' court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and mino ...

of Mogadishu * Maxamed Sheekh Cabdi Sheekh Cusmaan - Member of

References

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