Dervish State (Horn of Africa)
Somali anti-colonial state (1895–1920)
Dervish State (Horn of Africa)
The Dervish State (Somali: Dawladda Daraawiish) also known as the Dervish Movement, was an armed resistance movement and polity headquartered in Taleh, a city situated in the modern federated state of Waqooyi Bari, between 1895 and 1920. It was led by the Salihiyya Sufi Muslim poet and militant leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, also known as Sayyid Mohamed, who called for independence from the British and Italian colonisers and for the defeat of Ethiopian forces. The Dervish movement aimed to remove the British and Italian influence from the region and restore an "Islamic system of governance with a Sufi doctrine as its foundation", according to Mohamed-Rahis Hasan and Salada Robleh. Hassan established a ruling council called the Khususi consisting of Sufi tribal elders and spokesmen, added an adviser from the Ottoman Empire named Muhammad Ali, and thus created a multi-clan Islamic movement in what led to the eventual creation of the state of Somalia. The Dervish movement attracted approximately...
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