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- Abstract:
- This section contains a poem written by Sh. Abdalla al-Husniy, a famous religious scholar at the Hanisa Mosque in Mjua Kale, Mombasa. The content is a religious admonition to instruct the Muslim community on how to abide by the Islamic values and duties and not to follow any forbidden activities. Sh. Abdalla was very famous for composing Waadhi at the time of the Maulidi celebration that he used to organise at the Anisa Mosque. The Maulidi celebration at the Anisa Mosque was very famous across East Africa. The waadhi is followed by a short Utendi about a woman instructing her daughter on how to behave with her husband. This poem is similar in content to the famous poem ‘Utendi wa Mwana Kupona’ where Mwana Kupona is instructing her daughter on wifely duties. ( en )
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- Biographical information: Sheikh Abdalla al-Husniy was born in Mombasa at the beginning of 1900 in a family that originated from Hadramaut. He studied Islamic teaching with Sh. Said bin Ahmed, a well-known religious scholar. Sh. Abdalla became a Sheikh at the Anisa Mosque where he tought for many years and where he was buried in 1955. -- He was known for organising the Maulidi celebration, in the Anisa mosque, that was attended by many people from the Coast. After the maulidi he used to composed his famous waadhi, of which this one is an example. Sheikh Abdalla was Yahya Ali Omar’s religious teacher.
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- Date of Composition is unknown
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- Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
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- Dialects: KiMvita
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- Poetic Form: Various
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- Donated to SOAS in 1982
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- Extent: 8 leaves
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- Incipit: Kwa jina la Mola wetu-twanza maneno yetu a swifa za bwana wetu na kuswaliya nabiya
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- See SOAS University of London manuscript MS 380766 (Yahya Collection)
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- Other copy: SOAS University of London microfilm: M1008, reel 13
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- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
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- Publication information: P.J.L Frankl & Yahya Ali Omar. 19..Mashairi ya Waadhi. in AAP-Swahili Forum, Koln, Germany.
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- Publication information: Allen, J.W.T. 1971. Tendi. London: Heinemann Educational, pp. 55-78.
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- Publication information: Biersteker, Ann. 1991. Language, poetry and power: a reconsideration of Utendi wa Mwana Kupona. In Faces of Islam in African Literature, ed. by Kenneth Harrow, pp. 59-77. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann; and London: James Currey.
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- Publication information: Harries, Lyndon. 1962. Swahili Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 70-86.
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- Publication information: Hichens, William and Alice Werner. 1934. Advice of Mwana Kupona upon the Wifely Virtue. Medstead, Hampshire: Azania Press.
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- Publication information: Sheikh, Amina Abubakar and Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany (eds). 1972. Utendi wa Mwana Kupona na Utendi wa Ngamia na Paa. (Sanaa Ya Utungo I). Nairobi: Heinemann.
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- Publication information: Mulokozi, M.M. 1999. Tenzi Tatu za Kale. University of Dar-es-Salaam Press.
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- Publication information: Khatib, M.S. 1985. Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona. Mulika, 17, 46-52.
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- Publication information: Senkoro, F.E. M. K. 1988. Mwana Kupona Nana: Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona. In Ushairi: Nadharia na Tahakiki. Dare-es-Salaam University Press.
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- Publication information: Werner, Alice. 1917. The Utendi of Mwana Kupona. Harvard African Studies 1: 147-181
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 279888-Vol.8 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 364 ( SOAS manuscript number )
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