Ismail Mire

Ismail Mire Elmi (Somali: Ismaaciil Mire Cilmi) (Lasadar, Buhodle, Somaliland) (1878–1952) was a famous Somali poet and Dervish a dervish soldier and a bard according to Hastings Ismay who fought the dervishes from (1914-1920) as the commander of the camel corps.[1][2] Ismail Mire International Airportbis named after him.

Ismail Mire's Biography

References

ISMAY: 3/1/20.Summary by Ismay (as intelligence officer 1916-18), Burao Somaliland, of intelligence in British Somaliland 1915-Dec 1918, including description of forts; Dervish organisation; Dervish tactics 1914-1917; notes on Dervish personalities.
Africa - Volume 74, Issues 3-4 - Page 539 Diedrich Westermann, Edwin William Smith, Cyril Daryll Forde - 2004 "Ismail Mire, the dervish general and one of the greatest poets, stated in an interview that the Sayyid's 'men would ride up to a herdsman and say, "Join me and my brother and bring all your sheep and goats and camels," and if he agreed, they

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[1] ISMAY: 3/1/20.Summary by Ismay (as intelligence officer 1916-18), Burao Somaliland, of intelligence in British Somaliland 1915-Dec 1918, including description of forts; Dervish organisation; Dervish tactics 1914-1917; notes on Dervish personalities.

[2] Africa - Volume 74, Issues 3-4 - Page 539 Diedrich Westermann, Edwin William Smith, Cyril Daryll Forde - 2004 "Ismail Mire, the dervish general and one of the greatest poets, stated in an interview that the Sayyid's 'men would ride up to a herdsman and say, "Join me and my brother and bring all your sheep and goats and camels," and if he agreed, they