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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000172/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Al-Inkishafi (MS 256191a)
- Series Title:
- Hichens Collection
- Creator:
- Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959 ( Author, Primary )
- Publication Date:
- 1934 AD (1353 A.H.)
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten and typescript manuscript : In type of various colours on heavy paper, with notes (and Arabic words) in pencil and ink
Notes
- Abstract:
- This manuscript contains a side-by-side, unversified translation of Al-Inkishafi by Mbarak Ali Hinawy and an introduction to the poem by him. An appendix contains notes on the poem and its vocabulary. There are also two small pages of calligraphy and a note on the fall of Babylon as described in the Bible. The final page is a memorandum in which Mbarak Ali Hinawy agrees to terms under which his manuscript of Al-Inkishafi should be published by the Azania Press, headed by William Hichens. ( 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: 1934 AD (1353 A.H.)
- General Note:
- Extent: 49 pages plus loose drawings
- General Note:
- Incipit: My dear Bwana Hichens, I am sorry I have taken such a long time to complete the ‘Inkishafi’ but you will realise there are so many versions of it that it takes some time to sift all the ‘evidence’ one gets
- General Note:
- See SOAS University of London manuscripts MS 47770, MS 380548, MS 256191, MS 196884d
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/305366593
- General Note:
- Donated by Miss M. Bryan, August 1970
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Pate -- Pate Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Mombasa
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Manyara Region -- Siu District
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Faza -- Pate Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Witu
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Tana River County -- Kipini
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Mkunumbi
- General Note:
- Publication information: Sayyid Abdallah A. Nasir. 1972 (1939). Al-Inkishafi: The Soul’s Awakening. Trans. and ed. by William Hichens. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Sayyid Abdallah A. Nasir. 1977. Al-Inkishafi: Catechism of a Soul. Trans. and ed. by J. de Vere Allen. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Hichens, W. 1939. Al-Inkishafi. London: Sheldon Press
- General Note:
- Publication information: Allen R. 1946. Inkishafi-A Traslation from the Swahili. African Studies, 5, pp.243-249
- General Note:
- Publication information: Harris, L. 1962. Swahili Poetry. Clarendon Press: Oxford, pp.86-102
- General Note:
- Publication information: Mlamali, Mh. Wa. 1980. Ikisiri ya Inkishafi. Nairobi: Longman
- General Note:
- Publication information: Hamza Mustafa Njozi. 1998. The use of Ambiguity in Al-Inkishafi. Afrika und Ubersee, band 81, pp. 227-238
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 256191 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 256191a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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