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Public prayers in Chi-Mpoto  

Publication Date:  1924
Creator:  Church of England
Universities' Mission to Central Africa
Publisher:  Printed and published by the Universities' Mission Press ( Likoma )
Format:  55 p.
Subjects:  Church of England -- Liturgy -- Texts
Mpoto language -- Texts
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Mashairi ya Faraidhwi  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Sheikh Mohamed Jambein Al-Bakry
Format:  17 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In blue type, often blurred, on thin paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious practice
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Mazoezi ya kidini
Islamic law
Sheria ya Kiislamu
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Guide to Swahili examinations  

Publication Date:  1927
Creator:  Zanzibar
Ingrams, William Harold, 1897-
Broomfield, Gerald Webb, 1895-
Abubaker, Tahir bin
Publisher:  Government printer ( Zanzibar City )
Format:  51, [2] p. : 24.25 cm
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Swahili language -- Study and teaching
لغة سواحلية -- دراسة وتدريس
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Utenzi wa Kiyama (MS 380530b)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  33 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In black type
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Utenzi
Death
Heaven
ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Kifo
Imani za kidini
Mbinguni
Kuzimu
Muhammad, Mtume, -632
Mohammed, Prophet, -632
Prophet Mohammed
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Muḥammad, Prophet, -649
Paradise
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mombasa Chronicle (MS 373394)  

Publication Date:  1899 (1317 AH)
Creator:  Khamis bin Sa'id bin Shaikh al-Mambasi
Format:  Six leaves contained in a hardback folder
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript; Six loose pages contained in a hardback red folder; handwritten with black ink; the central part of most pages is unreadable
Subjects:  Business
Commerce
Warfare
Colonialism
Trade
Barghash ibn Sa'id, Sultan of Zanzibar, approximately 1834-1888
Sayyid Barghash
Abdalla bin Nassir al-Mazrui
Abdullah bin Nasser al-Mazrui
Jumadari Chota
Shehe Mvita
Mvita, Shehe
Bwana Shoka
Imam Qaydi al-Ardh
Qaydi al Ardh
al Ardh, Qaydi, Imam
Wagalla (Kenya)
Abdalla bin Hemedi
Sayyid Said
Hamed al Busaidi
al Busaidi, Hamed
Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856
Said bin Sultan
Sayyid Majid
Majid bin Said Al-Busaidi, 1834-1870
Imperialism
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Kishamia  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Mansab, Mwenye
Badawi, Ahmad Ahmad
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Religious practice
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Sala ya pa malaulau pa lyuwa lya ambuya  

Publication Date:  1926
Creator:  Church of England
Universities' Mission to Central Africa
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Publisher:  Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge by Universities' Mission Press ( Likoma, Nyasaland )
Format:  26 p.
Subjects:  Church of England -- Liturgy -- Texts
Mpoto language -- Texts
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Universities' mission to Central Africa
Prayers, Mpoto
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Al-Inkishafi (MS 373)  

Creator:  Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir
Abdalla ba Sheikh
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
Faith
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona  

Publication Date:  1858
Creator:  Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Gender roles
Marriage
Religious belief
Religious practice
Social structure
Women's education
Mwana Heshima binti Sheikh
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Hadithi ya Qiyama (MS 380530a)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  25 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In black type, with marks in pencil and red ink
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Utenzi
Death
Heaven
ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Kifo
Imani za kidini
Mbinguni
Kuzimu
Muhammad, Mtume, -632
Prophet Mohammed
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Muḥammad, Prophet, -649
Source Institution:  Archives and Special Collections

First lessons in Lonkundo  

Publication Date:  1917
Creator:  Moon, Everard R. (Everard Roy), 1879-1962
Foreign Christian Missionary Society
Publisher:  Mexico Press, Foreign Christian Missionary Society ( Bolenge, Congo Belge )
Subjects:  Bantu languages
Mongo-Nkundu language -- Grammar
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Suaheli-schriftstücke in arabischer schrift, mit lateinischer schrift umschrieben übersetzt und erklärt  

Creator:  Büttner, C. G. (Carl Gotthilf), 1845-1893
Publisher:  W. Spemann ( Stuttgart, Berlin )
Format:  xi, 206, 73 pages xi facsimile (3 folded)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  23
Subjects:  Swahili language
Textbooks
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Bokanda wa sukulu w'efe  

Publication Date:  1915
Creator:  Congo-Balolo Mission
Publisher:  Congo Balolo Mission ( Congo Belge (printed at Bongandanga, Upper Congo) )
Subjects:  Mongo-Nkundu language -- Readers
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Utenzi wa Hirqal (MS 45022a)  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Christianity
Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Gabriel (Archangel)
Prophet Mohammed
Oral history
Jibril
Ibnu Omari
Jaafari Mwana Amuye Bashiri
Faith
Muḥammad, Prophet, -641
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، 600-661
Heraclius
Abdalla Shuhuri
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Glossary (MS 210010c)  

Publication Date:  circa 1935 AD (circa 1354 A.H.)
Creator:  Hichens, William, -1944
Format:  16 f.
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Typescript manuscript : In blue and black type on pink paper; six of the seven leaves of glossary entries are reproduced in rather poor quality carbon copies
Subjects:  Swahili poetry
Kiswahili mashairi
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

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