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Narrow Results By: Language Swahili ( 14 ) English ( 1 ) Creator Allen, J. W. T. ( 4 ) [s.n.] ( 4 ) Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh, 1927- ( 2 ) Abdil-Qadir bin Muhammad ( 1 ) Ali Ahmed ( 1 ) Ali wa Salimu ( 1 ) Hamisi ( 1 ) Khatibu Abubakar ( 1 ) Liongo Fumo ( 1 ) Maryam binti Ali bin Abdalla ( 1 ) Show More >> Subject: Topic Swahili poetry ( 12 ) Kiswahili mashairi ( 10 ) Faith ( 7 ) Islam ( 7 ) Religious belief ( 7 ) Imani za kidini ( 6 ) Uislamu ( 6 ) Africa, East -- History ( 4 ) Afrika, Mashariki - Historia ( 4 ) East Africa -- History ( 4 ) Show More >> Subject: Geographic Area Africa ( 16 ) Kenya ( 16 ) Pate Island ( 6 ) Lamu ( 4 ) Lamu Island ( 4 ) Pate ( 4 ) Mombasa ( 3 ) Shanga ( 2 ) Lamu County ( 1 ) Malindi ( 1 ) Show More >> Subject: Genre Poem ( 8 ) Poetry ( 8 ) Correspondence ( 3 ) Letter ( 3 ) Personal correspondence ( 3 ) Shairi ( 3 ) Shayari ( 3 ) Utenzi ( 3 ) Notes ( 2 ) Records (Documents) ( 2 ) Show More >>	1 Mashairi ya Liyongo (MS 305c) Creator: Liongo Fumo ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Popular poetry Oral literature Songs Kiswahili mashairi Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu County -- Shanga -- Pate Island -- Shanga Ruins Genre: Poem Utumbuizo Poetry (LCTGM) Language: Swahili 2 Risala wa Zinjibari (MS 305d) Creator: [s.n.] Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Oral history Oral literature Africa, East -- History East Africa -- History Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa -- Fort Jesus Genre: Poem Shairi Poetry (LCTGM) Shayari Language: Swahili 3 Utendi wa Waji Waji na Duri li Mandhuma (MS 371b) Creator: Sharif Sayyid Umar bin Amin bin Nadhir al-Ahdal ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Islam Religious belief Uislamu Kiswahili mashairi Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island Genre: Poem Utenzi Poetry (LCTGM) Language: Swahili 4 Waadhi (MS 372) Creator: Abdil-Qadir bin Muhammad ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Islam Religious belief Men -- Education Sexual behaviour Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island Genre: Poem Utenzi Poetry (LCTGM) Language: Swahili 5 Correspondence with Prins and Nabhany (PP MS 20-1e) Creator: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ) Prins, A. H. J. (Adriaan Hendrik Johan) ( contributor ) Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh, 1927- ( contributor ) Publication Date: 1972-1973 AD (1392-1393 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Utendi wa Sambo Swahili Literature Publications Publishers and publishing Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Kilifi County -- Eastern Africa -- Malindi District -- Malindi Genre: Letter Correspondence (LCTGM) Personal correspondence (LCGFT) Language: Swahili 6 Correspondence with Sh. Nabhany (PP MS 20-1b) Creator: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ) Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh, 1927- ( contributor ) Publication Date: 1969-1978 AD (1389-1398 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Swahili Literature Publications Kiswahili mashairi Publishers and publishing Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa Genre: Letter Correspondence (LCTGM) Personal correspondence (LCGFT) 7 Swahili language material and list of authors (PP MS 20-8a) Creator: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: circa 1970 AD (circa 1390 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Swahili word list Photographs Swahili language -- Vocabulary Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island Language: Swahili 8 Poems praising the Prophet and Poems celebrating the death of Shariff Adnan of Lamu (MS 435) Creator: Khatibu Abubakar ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Islam Religious belief Uislamu Kiswahili mashairi Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island Genre: Poem Shairi Poetry (LCTGM) Shayari Language: Swahili 9 Miraji; Utendi wa Mwana Kupona; Utendi wa Kumsifu Mtume; Utendi wa Aisha (Mss 432-433) Creator: Ali wa Salimu ( Author, Primary ) Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 ( contributor ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Islam Swahili poetry Gender role Sex role Marriage Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island Genre: Poem Utenzi Poetry (LCTGM) Language: Swahili 10 Al-ahadithi al-Mukhtarat (MS 439) Creator: [s.n.] Swafiya binti Ali bin Muhammad ( contributor ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Islam Religious belief Imani za kidini Uislamu Faith Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Kilifi County -- Eastern Africa -- Mkomani Genre: Qur’an Translation Exegesis Language: Swahili 11 Historical Notes on the Busaidi, Nabhany, and Mazrui, and Utumbuizo wa Liyongo, and two Religious Tendi (MS 309) Creator: [s.n.] Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Islam Religious belief Swahili history Oral tradition in literature Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Shanga -- Pate Island -- Shanga Ruins Language: Swahili 12 Historical Poem on Lamu and Shela (MS 326a) Creator: Shaib Faraj bin Hemed al-Bakry Allamy ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Africa, East -- History East Africa -- History Arab colonialism Warfare, Conventional Military art and science Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island Genre: Notes Records (Documents) (LCGFT) Language: Swahili 13 Habari za Pate-historical notes (MS 358) Creator: Swaleh bin Salim bin Ahmed bin Abdalla Sharahil ( Author, Primary ) Publication Date: 1946 AD (1365 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Africa, East -- History East Africa -- History Arab colonialism Warfare, Conventional Military art and science Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island Genre: Notes Records (Documents) (LCGFT) Language: Swahili 14 Collection of Dua, Waadhi, Utenzi ya Arusi ya Fatuma na Ali, Kishamia (MS 393) Creator: Sheikh Yusuf bin Ismaili al-Nabhani ( Author, Primary ) Sayyid Ahmad bin Hasan al-Mahdali ( contributor ) Sayyid Mansab bin Abdirrahman ( contributor ) Sayyid Amin Al-Mahdaly ( contributor ) Maryam binti Ali bin Abdalla ( contributor ) Publication Date: [n.d.] Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Arabic poetry Religious poetry Islam Religious belief Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa Genre: Poem Shairi Takhmis Poetry (LCTGM) Shayari Language: Swahili 15 Miscellaneous poetry (PP MS 20-3b) Creator: [s.n.] Publication Date: circa 1950s AD (circa 1369 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Swahili Literature Oral literature Oral tradition in literature Kiswahili mashairi Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island Genre: Poem Poetry (LCTGM) Translation Language: Swahili 16 Correspondence with Ali Ahmed (PP MS 20-1f) Creator: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ) Ali Ahmed ( contributor ) Hamisi ( contributor ) Publication Date: 1972-1978 AD (1392-1398 A.H.) Type: Mixed Material Source Institution: SOAS University of London Holding Location: Archives and Special Collections Subject Keyword: Swahili poetry Swahili Literature Kiswahili mashairi Spatial Coverage: Africa -- Kenya -- Nairobi County -- Eastern Africa -- Nairobi Genre: Letter Correspondence (LCTGM) Personal correspondence (LCGFT) Language: English

Mashairi ya Liyongo (MS 305c)

Creator:: Liongo Fumo ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Popular poetry; Oral literature; Songs; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu County -- Shanga -- Pate Island -- Shanga Ruins
Genre:: Poem; Utumbuizo; Poetry (LCTGM)
Language:: Swahili

Risala wa Zinjibari (MS 305d)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Oral history; Oral literature; Africa, East -- History; East Africa -- History
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa -- Fort Jesus
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

Utendi wa Waji Waji na Duri li Mandhuma (MS 371b)

Creator:: Sharif Sayyid Umar bin Amin bin Nadhir al-Ahdal ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Uislamu; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM)
Language:: Swahili

Waadhi (MS 372)

Creator:: Abdil-Qadir bin Muhammad ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Men -- Education; Sexual behaviour
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM)
Language:: Swahili

Correspondence with Prins and Nabhany (PP MS 20-1e)

Creator:: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ); Prins, A. H. J. (Adriaan Hendrik Johan) ( contributor ); Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh, 1927- ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1972-1973 AD (1392-1393 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Utendi wa Sambo; Swahili Literature; Publications; Publishers and publishing
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Kilifi County -- Eastern Africa -- Malindi District -- Malindi
Genre:: Letter; Correspondence (LCTGM); Personal correspondence (LCGFT)
Language:: Swahili

Correspondence with Sh. Nabhany (PP MS 20-1b)

Creator:: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ); Nabhany, Ahmed Sheikh, 1927- ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1969-1978 AD (1389-1398 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Swahili Literature; Publications; Kiswahili mashairi; Publishers and publishing
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Letter; Correspondence (LCTGM); Personal correspondence (LCGFT)

Swahili language material and list of authors (PP MS 20-8a)

Creator:: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: circa 1970 AD (circa 1390 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili language; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Swahili word list; Photographs; Swahili language -- Vocabulary
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Language:: Swahili

Poems praising the Prophet and Poems celebrating the death of Shariff Adnan of Lamu (MS 435)

Creator:: Khatibu Abubakar ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Uislamu; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

Miraji; Utendi wa Mwana Kupona; Utendi wa Kumsifu Mtume; Utendi wa Aisha (Mss 432-433)

Creator:: Ali wa Salimu ( Author, Primary ); Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860 ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Islam; Swahili poetry; Gender role; Sex role; Marriage
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM)
Language:: Swahili

Al-ahadithi al-Mukhtarat (MS 439)

Creator:: [s.n.]; Swafiya binti Ali bin Muhammad ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Islam; Religious belief; Imani za kidini; Uislamu; Faith
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Kilifi County -- Eastern Africa -- Mkomani
Genre:: Qur’an; Translation; Exegesis
Language:: Swahili

Historical Notes on the Busaidi, Nabhany, and Mazrui, and Utumbuizo wa Liyongo, and two Religious Tendi (MS 309)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Swahili history; Oral tradition in literature
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Shanga -- Pate Island -- Shanga Ruins
Language:: Swahili

Historical Poem on Lamu and Shela (MS 326a)

Creator:: Shaib Faraj bin Hemed al-Bakry Allamy ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Africa, East -- History; East Africa -- History; Arab colonialism; Warfare, Conventional; Military art and science
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
Genre:: Notes; Records (Documents) (LCGFT)
Language:: Swahili

Habari za Pate-historical notes (MS 358)

Creator:: Swaleh bin Salim bin Ahmed bin Abdalla Sharahil ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1946 AD (1365 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Africa, East -- History; East Africa -- History; Arab colonialism; Warfare, Conventional; Military art and science
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Notes; Records (Documents) (LCGFT)
Language:: Swahili

Collection of Dua, Waadhi, Utenzi ya Arusi ya Fatuma na Ali, Kishamia (MS 393)

Creator:: Sheikh Yusuf bin Ismaili al-Nabhani ( Author, Primary ); Sayyid Ahmad bin Hasan al-Mahdali ( contributor ); Sayyid Mansab bin Abdirrahman ( contributor ); Sayyid Amin Al-Mahdaly ( contributor ); Maryam binti Ali bin Abdalla ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Arabic poetry; Religious poetry; Islam; Religious belief
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Takhmis; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

Miscellaneous poetry (PP MS 20-3b)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1950s AD (circa 1369 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Swahili Literature; Oral literature; Oral tradition in literature; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poem; Poetry (LCTGM); Translation
Language:: Swahili

Correspondence with Ali Ahmed (PP MS 20-1f)

Creator:: Allen, J. W. T. ( Author, Primary ); Ali Ahmed ( contributor ); Hamisi ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1972-1978 AD (1392-1398 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Swahili Literature; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Nairobi County -- Eastern Africa -- Nairobi
Genre:: Letter; Correspondence (LCTGM); Personal correspondence (LCGFT)
Language:: English

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