Farah Guled

Sultan Farah Guled (Somali: Faarax Guuleed) was a Somali ruler. He was the second Grand Sultan of the Isaaq and also a Hajji having completed pilgrimage to Mecca.[1]

Sultan Farah Guled
سلطان فارح جوليد
2nd Grand Sultan of the Isaaq
Reign1808 - 1845
PredecessorGuled Abdi
SuccessorHassan Farah
DynastyGuled Dynasty
ReligionSunni Islam

Biography
Part of the message from Isaaq Sultan Farah Guled to Sultan Saqr in the 1820s

Son of Sultan Guled, he was amongst the first generation of the Ba Ambaro branch of the emerging Guled dynasty, Farah was a member of the Eidagale branch of the Garhajis subclan of Isaaq.[2][3]

Message to Saqr al Qasimi

The Habr Awal had ransacked a British vessel that attempted to dock in Berbera's port in 1825. Multiple members of the crew were massacred and in response the Royal Navy enforced a blockade and some accounts narrate a bombardment of the city.[4] Given the reputation of the Qasimis as notorious pirates, the Isaaq Sultan Farah and Haji Ali penned a letter to Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi informing him of the situation and requested he join them in their conflict against Britain. Alongside their stronghold in the Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman the Qasimi were very active both militarily and economically in the Gulf of Aden and were given to plunder and attack ships as far west as the Mocha on the Red Sea.[5] They had numerous commercial ties with the Somalis, leading vessels from Ras Al Khaimah and the Persian Gulf to regularly attend trade fairs in the large ports of Berbera and Zeila and were very familiar with the Isaaq.[6] However, the Sultan was unable to respond or help relieve the blockade as the Persian Gulf campaign of 1819 had incapacitated his fleet. The letter was kept and recently compiled into a book by the current ruler of Sharjah Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi.[7]

See also

References
  1. Al Qasimi, Sultan bin Muhammad (1996). رسالة زعماء الصومال إلى الشيخ سلطان بن صقر القاسمي (in Arabic). p. ١٩.
  2. Carlos-Swayne, Harald. Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia: with supplementary preface on the 'Mad Mullah' risings. pp. 15–20.
  3. Genealogies of the Somal. Eyre and Spottiswoode (London). 1896.
  4. Laitin, David D. (1977). Politics, Language, and Thought: The Somali Experience. 9780226467917. p. 70. ISBN 9780226467917.
  5. Davies, Charles E. (1997). The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820. University of Exeter Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780859895095.
  6. Pankhurst, Richard (1965). "The Trade of the Gulf of Aden Ports of Africa in the Early Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries". Journal of Ethiopian Studies. 3 (1): 36–81.
  7. Al Qasimi, Sultan bin Muhammad (1996). رسالة زعماء الصومال إلى الشيخ سلطان بن صقر القاسمي (in Arabic). p. ١٢.


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