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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

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

Waadhi wa Sh. Abdalla al-Husniy (MS 380766a)  

Publication Date:  1948
Creator:  Al-Husniy, Abdalla, Sheik
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Sala ya pa malaulau pa lyuwa lya ambuya  

Publication Date:  1926
Creator:  Church of England
Universities' Mission to Central Africa
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Publisher:  Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge by Universities' Mission Press ( Likoma, Nyasaland )
Format:  26 p.
Subjects:  Church of England -- Liturgy -- Texts
Mpoto language -- Texts
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Universities' mission to Central Africa
Prayers, Mpoto
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Hamziyya  

Publication Date:  1652
Creator:  Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Muhammad Kijumwa
Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959
Sayyid Idarus bin Athman
Athman bin Al-Kadhi
،البوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد 1213?-1296?
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  H22.6 x W16
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious beliefs
Kijuma, Muhammad
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
Faith
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

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

Die Afrika-Literatur in der Zeit von 1500-1750 N. CH  

Publication Date:  1882
Creator:  Paulitschke, Philipp
Publisher:  Brockhausen & Bräuer ( Wien )
Format:  v, 122p : ;
Subjects:  Bibliography -- Africa
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kiokozi cha Banati  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Jambein Al-Bakry, Mohamed, Sheikh
Format:  15 leaves
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Typescript
In blue and black type on thin paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Religious practice
Women's education
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Imani za kidini
Mazoezi ya kidini
Elimu ya wanawake
Source Institution:  SOAS, University 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

Utenzi wa Kiyama (MS 380530b)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  33 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In black type
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
Mohammed, Prophet, -632
Prophet Mohammed
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Muḥammad, Prophet, -649
Paradise
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Lingala language learning cards]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  8 cards
Subjects:  Lingala language
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Utenzi wa Kiyama (MS 380530c)  

Format:  18 leaves
Technique:  In black type on thin paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Utenzi
Death
Heaven
Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Kifo
Imani za kidini
Mbinguni
Kuzimu
Muhammad, Mtume, -632
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Paradise
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Bokanda wa sukulu w'efe  

Publication Date:  1915
Creator:  Congo-Balolo Mission
Publisher:  Congo Balolo Mission ( Congo Belge (printed at Bongandanga, Upper Congo) )
Subjects:  Mongo-Nkundu language -- Readers
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

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