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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000157/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Marriage Customs: A Swahili Account in 1880 (MS 210014a)
- Series Title:
- Hichens Collection
- Creator:
- Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959 ( Author, Primary )
- Publication Date:
- circa 1940 AD (circa 1359 A.H.)
- Language:
- English
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black ink on the reverse sides of printed pages
Notes
- Abstract:
- The author discusses the procedure by which a man asks for a woman’s hand in Swahili communities; the form and ritual of marriage celebrations; and customs relating to pregnancy and birth. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Sir Mbarak Ali Hinawy was born in Mombasa c.1896AD (1314AH). He became Liwali of Mombasa and, after the death of Sir Ali b. Salim, Liwali of the Coast. Shaikh Mbarak, as he was also known, was probably the first non-European to collect manuscripts relating to Swahili literature, and his papers were given by his family, after his death in 1959AD (1379AH), to the university of Dar-es-Salaam archives. His publications together with his surviving papers reveal the depth of his scholarship. (Frankl & Omar, 1993)
- General Note:
- Date of Composition: circa 1940 AD (circa 1359 A.H.)
- General Note:
- Languages: English (Roman script)
- General Note:
- Extent: 7 leaves
- General Note:
- Incipit: These are words of marriage: When a man desires to marry a woman, he who desires a wife sends an adult man, sending him to the father of the woman So-and-so.
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Mombasa
- General Note:
- Publication information: Mbarak Ali Hinawy. 1964. Notes on customs in Mombasa. Swahili 34 (1): 17-35
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item is believed to be in the public domain
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 210014 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 210014a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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