| LC control no. | n 81131011 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Samatar, Said S. |
| Variant(s) | Samatar, Said |
| Associated country | Somalia United States |
| Birth date | 1943 |
| Death date | 2015 |
| Place of birth | Ogaden (Ethiopia) |
| Field of activity | Somalia--History |
| Affiliation | Rutgers University Eastern Kentucky University Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Goshen College |
| Profession or occupation | Historians History teachers |
| Found in | His Oral poetry and Somali nationalism, 1982: CIP t.p. (Said S. Samatar, asst. prof. of history, Rutgers Univ.) Papers of the Conference on Islam in Africa: the Changing Role of the 'Ulama, 1984: (Said Samatar (Rutgers University); contribution: Muslim resistance to socialist rule in Somalia : the 1975 execution of the sheikhs) Rutgers University website, viewed November 8, 2021 (Said S. Samatar; born in 1943 in the Ogaden, a region of Ethiopia inhabited by Somalis; spent his childhood as a camel-herder; B.A. at Goshen College; PhD. in African history 1979, Northwestern University; after teaching at Eastern Kentucky University, he joined the History Department at Rutgers University--Newark in 1981; a leading authority on the history of Somalia; died 2015) |
| Associated language | eng |
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