| Garad Jama "Farah" | |
| Succession: | Garad of the Dhulbahante Garadate |
| Reign: | 1920s |
| Coronation: | 1920s |
| Predecessor: | Ar dheil |
| House: | House of Garaad Shirshore Ruler of Ciid-Nugaal |
Garad Jama "Farah" was the 18th garad or sultan of the Dhulbahante Garadate, from the 1920s until 1960. His surname isn't Farah, but he acquired the title to distinguish Farah Garad from the garad/sultan of the equally sized Mahamuud Garad clan and that of the Bah Nugaal clan.
His father, the garad or sultan Ali, the immediate predecessor of Diiriye Guure, died in the patricide enacted by his older brother, sultan Mohamud Ali[1]
Prior to the Darawiish, the 'Iid-Nugaal was subdivided into a northern and southern Dhulbahante garadate. However the Garad was not necessarily the most powerful figure of this polity, with Richard Burton reporting that the Abbaan, in modern parlance chiefly used as the derivative abaanduul meaning protector, on occasion exhibiting greater influence. For example, Husayn Haji, the Abbaan of the northern Dhulbahante was depicted as dictating terms for travellers in the mid-19th century:[2]
Likewise, the Somali clans of this period didn't necessarily align on the basis of clan, with for example the southern Dhulbahante siding with the Warsangeli in their disputes with the northern Dhulbahante in the mid-19th century, according to explorer Richard Francis Burton:
The reign of the 14th garad of the Dhulbahante, namely Garad Koore-baas was arguably the most backward period of the Dhulbahante Garadate, with Warsangeli sultan Cawl stating that it is too dangerous to even visit during the mid-19th century:
The predecessor to Diiriye Guure, i.e. Garad Ali 4th, was sheltered from two foreign incursions by being an interior rather than coastal clan, with prior to the British, the Egyptian Khedivate likewise making incursions in Somali territories, preliminarily in 1870, with a full Egyptian Khedivate occupation on the Somali coast by 1874:[3]
Former colonial administrator Douglas James Jardine stated that Diiriye Guure and his predecessor Garad Ali the 4th, were the only major Somali tribal chieftains who did not sign a colonial treaty with European colonial power:[4]
The mid-19th century predecessor of Diiriye Guure, namely Koore-baas, and his Dhulbahante constituents w ere likewise described in these self-determination and autonomy inclined ways by author Said Sheikh Samatar:[5]
According to I.M. Lewis, the three successor Garads to Diiriye Guure between the post-Darawiish period and Somalia's independence, namely Garad Mohamed the 4th, Garad Aardheel and Garad Jama the 1st, likewise continued in the custom of their predecessors in rejecting a treaty:[6]
Despite the increase in cultivation and its profits, the Dhulbahante during the 1940s and 1950s largely continued in their tradition as reer guuraa (i.e. pastoralist), whilst calling cultivators as reer qodeed (diggers) and reer beereed (gardeners).
According to I.M. Lewis, the garad Jama Farah like his predecessors, continued in the custom of aversion to colonial powers:[7]
The primary antagonism between Garad Jama Farah and the British was the Garad's support of SYL, thus furthering cross-border multi-nationalism:[8]
Prior to his taxation plans, Garad Jama was in self-induced exile in Mogadishu:
Ali Gerad Jama, the university - educated son of the Gerad (chief) Jama Farah (who went into voluntary exile in Mogadiscio from 1952 to 1958 as a result of his conflict with the British administration) provided the main drive behind the party.[9]
The taxation plans for the Dhulbahante occurred in 1957, resembling a type of regulation and administration in return for public services and expenditure from Garad Jama Farah:[10]
It is of interest, however, to note that a clan meeting of the Dulbhante at Las Anod in December 1957, which discussed matters of general Dulbahante interest including the maintenance of peace, education and closer relations with Government, proposed the establishment of a clan betterment fund, contributions to which were to be received by Garaad Jaama. Vestiges of a similar degree of centralized administration on the pattern of a Muslim Sultanate, survive today in the Protectorate amongst the Warsangeli.
The predecessor of Diiriye Guure, Garad or Sultan Ali, passed away in a patricide, by his older son, Mohamud, the older brother of garad Jama Farah:[1]
After the commotion and fleeing by many Dervishes to the Huwan,[11] they were able to reestablish themselves at their original base in the Nugaal Valley when restitution was paid:[12]
the Dervishes could not remain in the Ogaadeen and they hastily withdrew to the Nugaal, where the Sayyid propitiated the Dulbahante for the moment by a massive payment of blood monies.
The poem Dhurwaa Ariga Eebaa Leh by Dhiqle tsarts name-checking the two sons of Garad Ali IV as "Laba ilmo-Garad baa leh" i.e., whimsically telling certain hyenas these livestock belong to his two sons i.e. Garad Mohamud and Garad Jama, although insinuating they are still young,[13] after certain spotted hyenas stole or ravished livestock intended for the haroun.
In 1899 either his father Sultan Ali or his successor Diiriye Guure gave his daughter to the Sayid,[14] at a time the Darawiish tariqa permitted a form of marriage called sighar, wherein multiple parallel marriages occurred with brides and bridegrooms being exchanged.