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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000293/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Kissa cha Baba Abdala Kipofu (MS 380060a)
- Series Title:
- Knappert Collection :
- Creator:
- Nassir, Ahmad ( Author, Primary )
Nassir, Ahmad ( contributor )
- Publication Date:
- 1972 AD (1392 A.H.)
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : Written in blue ink on ruled paper, with corrections in black ink and decoration in red
Notes
- Abstract:
- This manuscript contains an utenzi that is the translation into Swahili of a story contained in the famous book ‘One an a thousand nights’. The title of the story is ‘The Story of Baba Abdalla the Blind’. The author of the translation, Ahmad Nassir Juma Bhalo, had chosen to put the story into poetic verses. The utenzi begins with the salutation to Allah, a typical features of Swahili utenzi genre, before translating the story. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Ahmad Nassir Juma Bhalo is a reknown poet from Mombasa who is still alive today.
- General Note:
- Date of Composition: circa 1965 AD (circa 1385 A.H.)
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Roman script)
- General Note:
- Poetic Form: Shairi
- General Note:
- Extent: 38 pages
- General Note:
- Incipit: Ndugu nipani nyaraka, Na kalamu kwa haraka, Na wino usio shaka, Nipate kuandikiya
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Nassir, Ahmad : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/17308450
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
- General Note:
- Purchased from Dr. J. Knappert, August 1979
- General Note:
- Scribe: Nassir, Ahmad
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item is likely protected by copyright. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 380060 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380060a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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