Editing Sheikh (section)

===Horn of Africa===
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[[File:Sheikh Ali Ayanle Samatar.jpg|thumb|Sheikh Ali Ayanle Samatar, a prominent [[Somali people|Somali]] Islamic scholar.]]
In the Muslim parts of the [[Horn of Africa]], "shaikh" is often used as a noble title. In [[Somali people|Somali]] society, it is reserved as an honorific for senior Muslim leaders and clerics (''wadaad''), and is often abbreviated to "Sh".<ref name="Ifla">{{cite book|last=IFLA Committee on Cataloguing, IFLA International Office for UBC., IFLA International Programme for UBC., IFLA UBCIM Programme|title=International cataloguing: quarterly bulletin of the IFLA Committee on Cataloguing, Volume 11|year=1987|publisher=The Committee|pages=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IpBAQAAIAAJ}}</ref> Famous local sheikhs include [[Ishaaq bin Ahmed]], an early Muslim scholar and Islamic preacher, [[Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti]], an early Muslim leader in [[Somaliland]]; [[Abadir Umar Ar-Rida]], the patron saint of [[Harar]]; [[Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti]], Sheikh of the [[Riwaq (arcade)|riwaq]] in [[Cairo]] who recorded the [[French campaign in Egypt and Syria|Napoleonic invasion of Egypt]]; [[Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Zayla'i]], scholar who played a crucial role in the spread of the [[Qadiriyyah]] movement in Somalia and East Africa; [[Shaykh Sufi|Sheikh Sufi]], 19th century scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist; [[Abdallah al-Qutbi]], polemicist, theologian and philosopher best known for his five-part ''Al-Majmu'at al-mubaraka'' ("The Blessed Collection"); and Muhammad Al-Sumaalee, teacher in the [[Masjid al-Haram]] in [[Mecca]] who influenced many of the prominent Islamic scholars of today.<ref name="Fwmas">{{cite web|title=Scholars Biographies - 15th Century - Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abdullaah as-Sumaalee|url=http://www.fatwa-online.com/scholarsbiographies/15thcentury/assumaalee.htm|publisher=Fatwa-Online|access-date=26 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915024556/http://www.fatwa-online.com/scholarsbiographies/15thcentury/assumaalee.htm|archive-date=15 September 2012}}</ref>