Muhammad Hassan Biography
Muhammad Abdille Hassan (1864-1920) was a politico-religious leader and poet who is considered the father of Somali nationalism for his inspiration and leadership in a 20-year war against European and Ethiopian imperialism in Somaliland.
Muhammad Abdille Hassan was born on April 7, 1864, in northern Somaliland, and by age 12 he had decided to dedicate his life to the religion of Islam. His subsequent travels throughout Arabia and East Africa in search of knowledge, his reputation for learning, and his abilities as a teacher soon earned him the honorary title of sheikh. While in Mecca he met leaders of certain Moslem revivalist movements, and when he returned to Somalia in 1897, he began to condemn all excessive indulgences and luxuries and exhorted his people to return to a strict path of Moslem devotion.
During that era of the European partition of Africa, Sheikh Muhammad's contact with Catholic missionaries and British colonial officials convinced him that Christian colonization sought to destroy the Islamic faith of the Somalis. He believed that his passion to deepen Somali faith would never be realized until they were free, so he intensified his efforts by urging his countrymen to remove the European "infidels."
Sheikh Muhammad was clearly a man of great energy and broad imagination. In his attempt to create a national movement, he used kinship ties as bases for political alliances and deftly utilized marriage ties to cement alliances with clans with whom his relations were poor. To ensure a continued broad-based appeal, he was assisted in decision making by a small group of lieutenants who belonged to no single clan.
Muhammad Abdille Hassan (1864-1920) was a politico-religious leader and poet who is considered the father of Somali nationalism for his inspiration and leadership in a 20-year war against European and Ethiopian imperialism in Somaliland.
Muhammad Abdille Hassan was born on April 7, 1864, in northern Somaliland, and by age 12 he had decided to dedicate his life to the religion of Islam. His subsequent travels throughout Arabia and East Africa in search of knowledge, his reputation for learning, and his abilities as a teacher soon earned him the honorary title of sheikh. While in Mecca he met leaders of certain Moslem revivalist movements, and when he returned to Somalia in 1897, he began to condemn all excessive indulgences and luxuries and exhorted his people to return to a strict path of Moslem devotion.
During that era of the European partition of Africa, Sheikh Muhammad's contact with Catholic missionaries and British colonial officials convinced him that Christian colonization sought to destroy the Islamic faith of the Somalis. He believed that his passion to deepen Somali faith would never be realized until they were free, so he intensified his efforts by urging his countrymen to remove the European "infidels."
Sheikh Muhammad was clearly a man of great energy and broad imagination. In his attempt to create a national movement, he used kinship ties as bases for political alliances and deftly utilized marriage ties to cement alliances with clans with whom his relations were poor. To ensure a continued broad-based appeal, he was assisted in decision making by a small group of lieutenants who belonged to no single clan.
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan comes out and insults America and President's Day
WWE Muhammad Hassan 2010 comeback?
Muhammad Hassan Promo (WWE)
No comments:
Post a Comment