Issa (clan)

Issa
بنو عيسي
Issa; بنو عيسي
Dir Somali Clan
	The Tomb of Sheikh Issa in Sanaag
Ethnicity	Somali
Location	Somaliland; Ethiopia; Djibouti
Descended from	Issa
Parent tribe	Dir
Branches	Ēlēye' (Musse & Mamasan); Walaldon (Idleh & Youssouf); Hōlle (Mahadle & Saaib); Hōrrōne (Habar Walaal & Geele Walaal); Ūrweyne(Cabdelle & Siciid); Wardīq (Wakhtishiil & Rumawaaq);
Language	Somali; Arabic; French
Religion	Sunni, Islam

The Issa (also spelled Esa, or Aysa) (Somali: Ciise, Arabic: عيسى) is a northern Somali clan, a sub-division of the Dir clan family.^[1]^[2]^[3]

^ King, Preston (1987). An African Winter. Puffin. ISBN 978-0-14-052365-2., p.169.
^ "Refworld | 1) Persecution of the Issa tribe in Ethiopia; 2) Persecution of ethnic Somalis by the Ethiopian population in northern Ethiopia". Archived from the original on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
^ Lewis, I. M. (3 February 2017). Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho): North Eastern Africa Part I. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-30817-3.

[1] King, Preston (1987). An African Winter. Puffin. ISBN 978-0-14-052365-2., p.169.

[2] "Refworld | 1) Persecution of the Issa tribe in Ethiopia; 2) Persecution of ethnic Somalis by the Ethiopian population in northern Ethiopia". Archived from the original on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.

[3] Lewis, I. M. (3 February 2017). Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho): North Eastern Africa Part I. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-30817-3.

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