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Mombasa Chronicle (MS 373394)  

Publication Date:  1899 (1317 AH)
Creator:  Khamis bin Sa'id bin Shaikh al-Mambasi
Format:  Six leaves contained in a hardback folder
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript; Six loose pages contained in a hardback red folder; handwritten with black ink; the central part of most pages is unreadable
Subjects:  Business
Commerce
Warfare
Colonialism
Trade
Barghash ibn Sa'id, Sultan of Zanzibar, approximately 1834-1888
Sayyid Barghash
Abdalla bin Nassir al-Mazrui
Abdullah bin Nasser al-Mazrui
Jumadari Chota
Shehe Mvita
Mvita, Shehe
Bwana Shoka
Imam Qaydi al-Ardh
Qaydi al Ardh
al Ardh, Qaydi, Imam
Wagalla (Kenya)
Abdalla bin Hemedi
Sayyid Said
Hamed al Busaidi
al Busaidi, Hamed
Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856
Said bin Sultan
Sayyid Majid
Majid bin Said Al-Busaidi, 1834-1870
Imperialism
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Kleines Ruhana-deutsches Wörterbuch  

Publication Date:  [1914]
Creator:  Mener, Alois
Publisher:  Mosella-Verlag ( Trier )
Format:  165 p. : ;
Subjects:  Haya language -- Dictionaries -- German
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kishamia  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Mansab, Mwenye
Badawi, Ahmad Ahmad
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Religious practice
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Utenzi wa Hirqal (MS 45022a)  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Mwana, Kupona, 1810-1860
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Christianity
Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Gabriel (Archangel)
Prophet Mohammed
Oral history
Jibril
Ibnu Omari
Jaafari Mwana Amuye Bashiri
Faith
Muḥammad, Prophet, -641
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، 600-661
Heraclius
Abdalla Shuhuri
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Utenzi wa Qatirifu (Wadi Isban) (MS 45022b)  

Publication Date:  [19th century]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Abu Bakr bin Mwengo
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Legends
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661
Prophet Mohammed
Fāṭimah -632 or 633
Abū Bakr, Caliph, -634
Abu Bakr
Faith
علي بن أبي طالب، الخليفة، 600-661
Fatima
Warfare, Conventional
Military art and science
Muḥammad, Prophet, -643
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Utenzi wa Ndiwa na Kozi (MS 45022c)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Handwritten manuscript : Handwritten in black and red ink on old thick papers
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
Moses (Biblical leader)
Gabriel (Archangel)
Michael (Archangel)
Oral history
Jibril
Musa
Mikail
Faith
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Kadhi na Haramiya  

Publication Date:  1966
Creator:  Kijuma, Muhammad
Omar, Yahya Ali
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Barasisi: The Legend (MS 210010b)  

Publication Date:  circa 1935 AD (circa 1354 A.H.)
Creator:  Hichens, William, -1944
Format:  11 f.
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Typescript manuscript : In black type
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Legends
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Source Institution:  SOAS University 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

List of transliterations of proper names of Scripture into Lomongo, with French equivalents  

Publication Date:  1926
Creator:  Congo-Balolo Mission
Publisher:  Congo-Balolo Mission ( Congo Balolo Mission, Congo Belge )
Format:  110 p.
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Report of the proceedings of Zulu Orthography Conference held at Durban, Natal, South Africa, May 29, 30, 31, 1907  

Publication Date:  [1911]
Creator:  Conference on Zulu Orthography (Durban, South Africa)
Publisher:  P. Davis and Sons ( Pietermaritzburg )
Subjects:  Zulu language -- Orthography and spelling -- Congresses
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Al-Inkishafi (MS 373)  

Creator:  Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir
Abdalla ba Sheikh
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
Faith
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Inncwadi Yezifundo  

Creator:  Church of England in Natal
Colenso, John William, 1814-1883
Church of the Province of South Africa. Diocese of Natal
Publisher:  City Printing Works ( Pietermaritzburg )
Subjects:  Zulu language -- Readers
Laudatory poetry, Zulu
Zulu (African people) -- Folklore
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Hadithi ya Qiyama (MS 380530a)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  25 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In black type, with marks in pencil and red ink
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Utenzi
Death
Heaven
ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Kifo
Imani za kidini
Mbinguni
Kuzimu
Muhammad, Mtume, -632
Prophet Mohammed
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Muḥammad, Prophet, -649
Source Institution:  Archives and Special Collections

Schambala-Grammatik  

Publication Date:  1912
Creator:  Rösler, O
Gleiss, Franz
Publisher:  Georg Reimer ( Berlin )
Format:  xii, 134 p. : ;
Subjects:  Shambala language -- Dictionaries -- German
Shambala language -- Grammar
German language -- Dictionaries -- Shambala
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

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