Dobira
Dobira, also known as Dobira or Dombiro was a Somali historical figure.Biography
Dobira was a proto-Somali and the daughter of Dagale, the Dir clan chief. While other historical works mention that Dombira was the daughter of Hawiye . With that Darod established link with the main Samaale Somali's. Samaale is said to have been an Arab migrant from Yemen arriving in the 9th century.
During the 10th or 11th century CE, Dobira married Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, a son of the Sufi Sheikh Isma'il al-Jabarti of the Qadiriyyah order, who had settled in northern Somalia just across the Red Sea. The union is said to have given rise to the Darod clan family.
Dobira is buried just outside the ancient northern town of Haylaan, where Sheikh Darod's tomb is located.
