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Matooke (Green Banana)  

Publication Date:  [early 1960s]
Creator:  Musango, Francis
Material:  Oil on board
Measurements:  H62.5 x W122 cm
Subjects:  Matoke
Green bananas
Afrika -- Uganda
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Gift of Dr Joan Maw, 1992.

Kitab Al-Shifa Bi Ta'Rif Huquq Al-Mustafa = Healing by the Recognition of the Reality of the Chosen One (Jos MS 397)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  ʿIyāḍ Ibn-Mūsā 1083-1149
القاضي عياض، 476-544 هـ
عياض بن موسى، 1083-1149
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  6.6 x 9.25 cm.
Subjects:  Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa
Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
سيرة رسول الله
Sîra
Sira (Islam)
Prophetic biography
السيرة النبوية
as-Siratu 'n-Nabawiyya
Life of the Messenger of God
سيرة
Sîrah
Islamischen Historiographie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Glossary (MS 210010c)  

Publication Date:  circa 1935 AD (circa 1354 A.H.)
Creator:  Hichens, William, -1944
Format:  16 f.
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Typescript manuscript : In blue and black type on pink paper; six of the seven leaves of glossary entries are reproduced in rather poor quality carbon copies
Subjects:  Swahili poetry
Kiswahili mashairi
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Boat, probably in the Suez Canal  

Publication Date:  1937
Creator:  Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist
Material:  Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Agfa
Subjects:  Boats and boating
Egypt -- Suez Canal
مصر -- قناة السويس
أفريقيا -- مصر -- السويس -- السويس
قارب
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

On the Scharnhorst  

Publication Date:  1937
Creator:  Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist
Material:  Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Agfa
Subjects:  Europeans
أفريقيا -- مصر -- القاهرة -- القاهرة
Passenger ships
Arabs
Scharnhorst (passenger ship)
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Hauts-plateaux  

Publication Date:  [1934 - 1940]
Creator:  Stavy
Publisher:  Stavy
Subjects:  Cows
Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Antananarivo
Afrique -- Madagascar -- TananariveHautes Terres de Madagascar
Landscape
Uplands
Endriky
Tani-hay
Bibi fiompy
Paysages
Hautes terres
Vaches
Pâturage
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Servante d'Egypte  

Publication Date:  [1808-1826]
Creator:  Cousinéry, Marcel, 1759-1795
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Watercolors
Subjects:  Women
Ethnic costume
Clothing
Afrika -- Mısır
أفريقيا -- مصر
Egyptians
Water carriers (Persons)
Headscarves
Water jugs
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Lokwalo loa mahoko a SeCwana le Leeneles  

Publication Date:  1895
Creator:  Brown, J. Tom (John Tom), 1860-1925, 1860-1925
Publisher:  Butler & Tanner
Measurements:  17 cm.
Subjects:  Tswana language
Tswana language -- Dictionaries -- English
English language -- Dictionaries -- Tswana
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kitab tarik Bilad Sudan  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Ulama-I, B., circa 1911.
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  20 x 27 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona  

Publication Date:  1858
Creator:  Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Gender roles
Marriage
Religious belief
Religious practice
Social structure
Women's education
Mwana Heshima binti Sheikh
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Tanbihu al-khusama : [various watermarks]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Interior of the mosque of the Sultan el Ghoree  

Publication Date:  1846 - 1849
Creator:  Roberts, David, 1796-1865
רוברטס, דוד, 1796-1864
Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885
Material:  Colour lithograph
Measurements:  H68 x W54 cm
Subjects:  Mosque of the Sultan Al-Ghuri
وكالة الغوري
Mosques
المساجد
أفريقيا -- مصر -- القاهرة -- وكالة الغوري
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[al-ʿaqāʾid al-tawḥīdiyya and 99 beautiful names of Allah]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Ibrāhīm, the student of Alhaji al-Māhir (Goni) Abūbakar Wujeu (Wujô)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma
Dogma -- Nigeria
Théologie islamique -- Nigéria
Islamische Theologie -- Nigeria
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Iviri vya Chinamwanga : Vyakongwanika, vyapilulwa  

Publication Date:  1900
Creator:  Dewar, Emmeline H.
Publisher:  Printed at the Mission Press ( Livingstonia )
Format:  [ix], 141p.
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Tales
Mwanga language -- Texts
Folk literature
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Suaheli-schriftstücke in arabischer schrift, mit lateinischer schrift umschrieben übersetzt und erklärt  

Creator:  Büttner, C. G. (Carl Gotthilf), 1845-1893
Publisher:  W. Spemann ( Stuttgart, Berlin )
Format:  xi, 206, 73 pages xi facsimile (3 folded)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  23
Subjects:  Swahili language
Textbooks
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

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