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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of a Swahili translation of an Arabic work on the birth of the Prophet Muhammad

Author: Barzanjī, Jaʻfar ibn Ḥasan, -1763 or 1764 برزنجي، جعفر بن حسن

Title: Maulidi ya Barzanji na Tafsiri yake kwa mashairi kwa kiswahili

Title: مولد یبرزنجي و نتفسیر یاک یاک کو مشئیر کو کسوهیلي

A Swahili version of the Mawlid al-Barzanji nathr, an Arabic poem on the birth of the prophet Muhammad also known as the Maulidi ya Hee

Incipit: نجلیند کو موینی ز نشیطان ملعون انبا نمتکوز کو حیل ز یس کفان / Najilinda kwa Mwenyezi, na shetani mal’iuni, ambaye ni mtokozi, kwa hila ziso kifani

Language(s): Swahili

References

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Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 98 f.

Hand(s)

In vocalised Arabic Swahili

Record Sources

"Swahili Manuscripts Collections".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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