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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

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

Utenzi wa Barasisi (MS 210010a)  

Publication Date:  circa 1935 AD (circa 1354 A.H.)
Creator:  Saidi bin Abdallah Masu'udi
سعید بن عبد الله مسعود
Said bin Abdallah Masu’ud
Format:  21 f.
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Typescript manuscript : In black type
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Legends
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Mashairi ya Faraidhwi  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Sheikh Mohamed Jambein Al-Bakry
Format:  17 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In blue type, often blurred, on thin paper
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious practice
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Mazoezi ya kidini
Islamic law
Sheria ya Kiislamu
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

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

Elementary Zulu  

Publication Date:  1921
Creator:  W., M. F.
Publisher:  Juta & Co. ( Cape Town )
Subjects:  Zulu language -- Grammar
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

School reader in Chimpoto  

Publication Date:  1925
Creator:  Universities' Mission to Central Africa
Publisher:  Printed and published by the Universities' mission to Central Africa ( Likoma, Nyasaland )
Format:  [ii], [1-9], 10-48p.
Subjects:  Mpoto language -- Readers
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

Wakristo Hodari  

Publication Date:  1939
Creator:  Bihlmeyer
Beatus Iten
Format:  24 leaves
Technique:  In black type, with corrections in ink and no pagination
Subjects:  Christianity
Catholicism
Saints
Translations
Missionary work
Ukristo
Ukatoliki
Watakatifu
Tafsiri
Kazi ya umisionari
Inter-territorial Language (Swahili) Committee to the East African Dependencies
Catholic Church
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

Guide to Swahili examinations  

Publication Date:  1927
Creator:  Zanzibar
Ingrams, William Harold, 1897-
Broomfield, Gerald Webb, 1895-
Abubaker, Tahir bin
Publisher:  Government printer ( Zanzibar City )
Format:  51, [2] p. : 24.25 cm
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Swahili language -- Study and teaching
لغة سواحلية -- دراسة وتدريس
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

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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