page_title: Bimaal
section_title: Abdirahman Eremage( Geedsan)
hierarchical_section_title: Bimaal / History / Abdirahman Eremage( Geedsan)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bimal elders along with the Bimal Sultan Ali on board the Marco Polo.discussing matters with the Italians.
context_page_description: The Bimaal or Bimal, official name: Jamal, is one of the sub-clans of the major Dir clan family. This clan is widely known for leading a resistance against the colonials in southern Somalia for decades which can be compared to the war of the Sayyid in Somaliland. The Biimaal mainly lives in Southern Somalia, the Somali region of Ethiopia, which their Gaadsen sub-clan mainly inhabits and in the NEP region of Kenya.
context_section_description: The name of Geedsan or gadsen is a nickname, which means "genuine"  given by his Scholar called Sheikh Abdirahman Ulamadoobe.
  The Gaadsen or reer Aw-Gaadsan branch of the Bimaal. The Aw Gaadsen trace themselves from holymen and sheikhs living as pastoral nomads. Such religious lineages of sheikhs and holy-men are generally referred to as 'reer aw' or 'wadaaddo' . They are nominally 'men of God' possessed of blessing by definition rather than learned. Although it doesn't necessary mean that all their lineages make religion their profession.
caption: Bimal elders and the Sultan of the clan discussing matters with Italian figures on board the Marco Polo.
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