Official Name: | Hahi |
Native Name: | Xaaxi |
Other Name: | Oriya: حاحي |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Togdheer#Somaliland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Somaliland |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | 9.3519°N 44.9642°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Somaliland |
Subdivision Name2: | Togdheer |
Subdivision Name3: | Oodweyne District |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 1,008 |
Population Total: | 2971 |
Population As Of: | 2006 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | BWh |
Hahi (Somali: Xaaxi, Arabic: حاحي), is a town in Oodweyne District located in western Togdheer, Somaliland.
Hahi started as a permanent well for pastoralists and became a settlement. In the 19th century, members of the Sufi order Dandarawiyah would establish a tariqa and jama'a (congregation) at the town. The order was founded by Sayid Mohamed al Dandarawi who was a student of Ibrahim al Rashid and their teachings spread from Arabia to Sudan before eventually reaching Somaliland via the Somali Sheikh Sayid Aadan Ahmed.[2] [3] It would spread to Sheikh although it remained much smaller than the established Qadiriyya or Salihiyya orders. A young Nur Ahmed would study in the tariqa of Hahi before a succession crisis would prompt him to leave and eventually see him take the title of Habr Yunis and Reer cali part of arab sub-clan Sultan.[4]
In June 2006 Hahi had an estimated population of 2,971.[5] Hahi is inhabited by subclans of the Habar Yoonis Ugaadh Cumar, and reer Cali, a subdivision of the Garhajis and Arap clan of the wider Isaaq clan family.[6]