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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000381/00003
Material Information
- Title:
- Swahili Letters from Goa (MS 380699)
- Series Title:
- Miscellaneous Swahili manuscripts
- Added title page title:
- MS 380699 (Swahili Letters from Goa)
- Added title page title:
- 12th/18th century Swahili letter from Kilwa Kisiwani being a study of one folio from the Goa Archives
- Creator:
- Fatima binti Muhammad ( Author, Primary )
Ali Omar, Yahya
Frankl, P. J. L.
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Copyright Date:
- 1994
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : Copy of originals on grey large papers, contained in a grey open folder; most of the material is unreadable
Notes
- Abstract:
- The correspondence contained here is a copy of originals contained in the Goa Archives relating to the Portuguese period of colonization of the Coast. The correspondence, although mainly illegible, is between the Crown, in Lisbon, and his Viceroy, in Goa, and is written in Portuguese. However, there is also an interesting letter by the Queen of Kilwa Kisiwani, Fatuma bin Mohammed, writing to a Mombasan, Mwinyi Jumaa, who was based in Goa. This letter, written in Arabic script, has been extensively studied by Yahya Ali Omar and Peter Frankl who published a translation in Afrika und Ubersee, 77, 1994. ( en )
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Fatima binti Muhammad was the ruler of Kilwa Kisiwani in the 18th century.
- General Note:
- Date of Composition: circa 18th century AD (circa 1215 A.H.)
- General Note:
- Dialects: old Southern
- General Note:
- Extent: 19 leaves
- General Note:
- Incipit: bismillahi al-rahmani al-rahim, mimi mfalme wa Kilwa Sultani Fatima ibnati
- General Note:
- Archival history: Donated by Peter Frankl, 1 October 1996
- General Note:
- Asia -- Southern Asia -- India -- Goa
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Lindi Region -- Kilwa District -- Kilwa Kisiwani -- Kilwa Kisiwani Island
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kilwa Sultanate
- General Note:
- Donated by Peter Frankl, 1 October 1996
- General Note:
- Publication information: Yahya Ali Omar & Frankl, P J. 1994. A 12/18th century Swahili letter from KiIwa Kisiwani (being a study of one folio from the Goa Archives). Afrika und Ubersee, Band 77, pp. 263-272
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 380654 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380654a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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