Hasna Doreh

Hasna Doreh
حسناء دوريه
Hasna Doreh ; حسناء دوريه
Born	1860s; Hobyo
Died	Taleh Dervish State
Organization	Dervish State
Political party	Dervish movement
Spouse	Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

Hasna Doreh (Somali: Xasna Dooreeh, Arabic: حسناء دوريه) was an early 20th-century Somali female commander of the Dervish State, a state which frequently engaged in battles against the imperial powers during the Somali campaign. Female Darwiish such as her were referred to as Darwiishaad or Darawiishaad.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Doreh was the wife of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who assigned her one of the nine divisions of the Dervish army.^[2]

In his biography of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan and Hassan's Dervish comrades, the author Ray Beachey compared Doreh to the ancient British Queen Boadicea in her struggle against the Roman Empire.^{[citation needed]}

Notes[edit]

^ Hoehne, Markus (2011). Political Orientations and Repertoires of Identification: State and Identity Formation in Northern Somalia.
^ Beachey, p.76

References[edit]

Beachey, R. W. (1990). The warrior mullah: the Horn aflame, 1892-1920. Bellew. ISBN 0-947792-43-0.

[hoehne-1] Hoehne, Markus (2011). Political Orientations and Repertoires of Identification: State and Identity Formation in Northern Somalia.

[2] Beachey, p.76

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