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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000361/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Fragment of Wawe ya Taamali and partial explanation of the wawe (MS 380560b)
- Series Title:
- Knappert Collection :
- Creator:
- [s.n.]
Ali Omar, Yahya, 1924–2008 ( contributor )
- Publication Date:
- 1966 AD (1386 A.H.)
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : In blue ink
Notes
- Abstract:
- This fragment belongs to a wawe that is linked to the reading of the Qur’an before the start of agricultural work. The preceding explanation by Yahya Ali Omar concerns the stage at which the poem is sung. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of Composition is unknown
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
- General Note:
- Dialects: KiTikuu
- General Note:
- Extent: 2 small pages
- General Note:
- Incipit: Nyuka muwani, upewaya buni, na mtawanuni, wa wanye subuhu
- General Note:
- Majunguni is also spelled Maguniani
- General Note:
- Tolmacheva, Marina (Essays in Swahili Geographical Thought. AAP 42 (1995): 1-40) suggests that Tikuuni refers to the distance to or from Bajuni (cf, 'Toponym Formation, p. 30); Tikuu, she notes, is "thought to derive from 'nti kuu' [meaning] "big country"
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Somalia -- Lower Juba Region -- Bajuni Islands
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Coast Province -- Majunguni
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Majunguni
- General Note:
- Purchased from Dr. J. Knappert, 15 March 1993
- General Note:
- Scribe: Ali Omar, Yahya, 1924–2008
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 380560 ( soas manuscript number )
MS 380560b ( soas manuscript number )
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