SOAS - Swahili Manuscripts Collections

19th - 20th Century Swahili Popular Verses (MS 47707a)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1800-1900 AD (circa 1215-1318 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Swahili songs; Oral tradition in literature; Kiswahili mashairi; Songs, Swahili
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Songs (LCTGM); Shairi; Wimbo; Shayari; Nyimbo
Language:: Swahili

19th Century Poems from Siu (MS 380450a)

Creator:: Muhammad bin Sheikh Mataka ( Author, Primary ); Sheikh Muhyiddin bin Sheikh bin Qahtwan al-Waily ( contributor ); Umar bin Amin-Ahdali ( contributor ); Maalim Musa ( contributor ); Koti, Ali ( contributor )
Publication Date:: circa 1900 AD (circa 1318 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Religious poetry; Religious belief; Islam; Imani za kidini
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

29 Swahili Love Songs (MS 380546a)

Creator:: Abedi, Bakari ( Author, Primary ); Nassir, Ahmad ( contributor )
Publication Date:: circa 1966 AD (circa 1386 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Nyimbo; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

34 stanzas with notes (MS 380272b)

Creator:: Mgeni bin Faqihi ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1964 AD (1384 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM); Translation

Abunawas na Harun Rashid (MS 193290d)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1939 AD (circa 1349 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Short stories; Fiction; Oral literature; Oral tradition in literature; Moral values
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Stories; Hadithi; Literature (LCTGM); Translation
Language:: Swahili

African Aphorisms (MS 47752a)

Creator:: Taylor, W. E. (William Ernest), 1856-1927 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1891 AD (1309 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Aphorisms; Proverbs; Swahili oral literature; Oral literature; Giryama oral literature
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Translation
Language:: Dawida; Kigiryama

Aids to the study of ki-swahili : four studies compiled and annotated

Creator:: Mervyn W. H. Beech ( Editor )
Publication Date:: [nach 1911]
Publisher:: Kegan, Trench, Trubner ( London )
Type:: Book
Source Institution:: University of London
Holding Location:: SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:: Swahili language
Spatial Coverage:: Africa; Afrika
Genre:: Textbooks
Language:: English; Swahili

Battaar

Creator:: Nassir, Abdilahi
Type:: Book
Format:: 54 p.
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661; Islam -- History; Caliphs -- History; Middle East -- History; Uislam -- Historia
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Nairobi
Language:: Swahili

Battaar ( 4 items )

Al-Ahaadiith al-Mukhtaarah (MS 363)

Creator:: Mazrui, Al-Amin Bin Ali ( Author, Primary ); Abibakr Muhammad Khatib ( 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; Faith; Imani za kidini; Muḥammad, Prophet, -642
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Genre:: Stories; Hadithi; Literature (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

Al-Akida: the life history of Muhammad bin Abdallah bin Mbarak Bakhashweini with . . . (MS 210009a)

Creator:: Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959 ( Author, Primary ); Abdallah bin Mas’ud bin Salim al-Mazrui ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1940 AD (1359 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; Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi; Afrika, Mashariki - Historia
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa

Al-Inkishafi (MS 253029a)

Creator:: Hichens, William, -1944 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1936 AD (1355 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Religious belief; Islam; Imani za kidini; Uislamu
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
Genre:: Notes; Records (Documents) (LCGFT)
Language:: Swahili

Al-Inkishafi (MS 256191a)

Creator:: Al-Hinawy, Mbarak, Sheikh-Sir, 1896-1959 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: 1934 AD (1353 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Kiswahili mashairi; Swahili poetry; Religious belief; Islam; Imani za kidini
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Translation

Al-Inkishafi (MS 373)

Creator:: Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir ( Author, primary ); Abdalla ba Sheikh ( Scribe )
Publication Date:: 1967
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Islam; Swahili poetry; Religious beliefs; Uislamu; Kiswahili mashairi
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poetry (Utenzi); Utenzi (poetic form)
Language:: Swahili

Al-Inkishafi (MS 373) ( 2 items )

Al-Inkishafi (MS 373)

Creator:: [s.n.]; Salim Baswaffar ( contributor )
Publication Date:: [n.d.]
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast

Al-Inkishafi (MS 47770a)

Creator:: Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:: circa 1930 AD (circa 1349 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Imani za kidini; Uislamu
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Eastern Africa -- Pate -- Pate Island
Genre:: Poem; Utenzi; Poetry (LCTGM)
Language:: Swahili

An African Survey (MS 53489b)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1930 AD (circa 1349 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; Mazrui family; Afrika, Mashariki - Historia; Mazru'i dynasty
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Tanzania -- Lindi Region -- Eastern Africa -- Kilwa District -- Kilwa Kisiwani -- Kilwa Kisiwani Island
Genre:: Essays (LCGFT)
Language:: English

Anthology of Swahili Poets (MS 53490a)

Creator:: [s.n.]
Publication Date:: circa 1937 AD (circa 1356 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Swahili poetry; Kiswahili mashairi; Biography; Oral tradition in literature
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Kenya -- Mombasa County -- Eastern Africa -- Mombasa
Genre:: Translation

Anthropology miscellaneous (PP MS 42. SL/14-SL/18)

Creator:: Ueda, Hitoshi ( Author, Primary ); Creider, Chet A. ( contributor ); Whiteley, Wilfred Howell ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1971 AD (1391 A.H.)
Type:: Mixed Material
Source Institution:: SOAS University of London
Holding Location:: Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:: Anthropology; Sociology; Ritual; Traditional Religion; Religious practice
Spatial Coverage:: Africa -- Tanzania -- Pwani Region -- Eastern Africa -- Mafia District -- Mafia Island
Genre:: Essays (LCGFT)
Language:: English

Arabic and Swahili poems praising the Prophet Mohammed (MS 457; MS 279888-Vol.11)

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; Arabic poetry; Islam; Religious belief; Sufism
Spatial Coverage:: Asia -- Saudi Arabia -- Arabian Peninsula
Genre:: Poem; Shairi; Poetry (LCTGM); Shayari
Language:: Swahili

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