Mogadishu

مقديشو

Port city on the Somali coast, a trading centre of the medieval East African littoral that Ibn Battuta visited.

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East Africa & Swahili coast
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Home of
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke· Fartuun Adan· Hassan Sheikh Mohamud· Ilwad Elman
Birthplace of
Ahmed Hussen· Ayaan Hirsi Ali· Fartuun Adan· Hawa Abdi· Ilhan Omar· Ilwad Elman· K'naan· Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
Place of death of
Ali Yusuf Kenadid· Hawa Abdi

People and things also explored

Fartuun Adan· Hassan Sheikh Mohamud· Ilwad Elman· Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed· Abdiweli Mohamed Ali· Aden Adde· Yusuf Ali Kenadid (Sultan Kenadid)· Submission

Sources

  • Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
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islam.museum contributors. “Mogadishu”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mogadishu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Fartuun Adan

Somali social activist, born in 1969. She is executive director of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre in Mogadishu, which she revived in honour of her late husband Elman Ali Ahmed, and co-founder of Sister Somalia, the country's first support programme for survivors of sexual violence. She received the International Women of Courage Award in 2013 and, with her daughter Ilwad Elman, the Right Livelihood Award in 2022.