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8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Lamu Island, Islamic poetry, and Swahili poetry

1.
Author: Kijuma, Muhammad
Title: Hadithi ya Pate Siu
Title: حديث يپاتي نسو

A history of Siu Island in the Lamu archipelago

Incipit: مع السلطان سعید ابن الامام بن سلطان و سوحیل نو عراب / Al-Sultan Sa’id bin Sultan ibniI Imam Sultani wa Sawahili na wa ‘Arabu
Language(s): Swahili

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Author: Kijuma, Muhammad
Title: Nyimbo za Mapenzi
Incipit: نولز مفد مليپ شور لن نکد منپاپ / Nauliza mafundi muliopo, shauri lenu nikandi munipapo
Language(s): Swahili

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3.
Author: Bwana Kitini
Title: Tarekhe ya Pate

A history of Pate

Incipit: مت و کاندا کی پت کتک نبهان / Mtu wa kwanda kuya Pate katika Nabahany
Language(s): Swahili

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4.
Author: Said Mwingwa wa Abdallah Manga
Title: Utenzi wa Said Mwingwa wa Abdallah Manga,

A religious poem in Arabic script with a transliteration and some English translation by Taylor

Incipit: بسم الله اول رحمن د پیل / Bismillahi awali, rahamani nda pili
Language(s): Swahili

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Author: ʻAzab, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ʻAzab, Muḥammad al-Madanī Muḥammad al-ʻAzabī عزب، محمد بن محمد
Translator: Ḥasanī al-Salīm, Manṣab ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, d.1922 Sayyid Mansab bin Sayyid Abd-al-rahman الحسنی السلیم، منصب بن عبد الرحمن
Title: Mawlid al-ʻAzab
Title: مولد العزب

A Swahili summary translation al-ʻAzab's poem on the birth of the prophet Muhammad also known as the Maulidi-Mukhtasar مولد مختصر

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الحمد لله الذی قد اوجدا من نوره نور به عم الهدای
Colophon: فقد تم نقل المولد النبوی للشیخ محمد العرب الذی اختصر السید منصب بن عبد الرحمن الحسنی مع حسن تفسیره بلغة السوحلية...کتبه الحقیر احمد بن محمد بن یونس السعدی تاریخ یوم الربوع 29 فی شوال سنه 1352
Language(s): Arabic, Swahili

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6.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Hadithi ya Sheikh Ali

A fanciful poem on the death of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

Incipit: بسم الله اوال ا اسم ياك جل الا پیک هان بد ل ایل ا نی ی ممای / Bismillahi awali, ismu yake Jalali, yu pweke hana badali, illa ni yeye mmoya
Language(s): Swahili
Author: Saidi bin Abdallah Masu'udi Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd Allāh Masʻūd سعید بن عبد الله مسعود
Title: Utenzi wa Hasina
Incipit: اول جن لرب بسم الله كتب الرحمن ارب ناالريم وكوا / Awali jina la Rabu, bismillahi kutubu, ar-rahmani iribu, na ar-rahimu ukuwa

The story of Hasina and Rashid

Language(s): Swahili

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Author: Saidi bin Abdallah Masu'udi Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd Allāh Masʻūd سعید بن عبد الله مسعود
Title: Utenzi wa Barasisi
Incipit: مم نسم نوز ميو كوجوز / Mimi nasema naweza, moyowe kuugeuza

A Swahili version in verse of the story of Barsisa

Language(s): Swahili

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9.
Author: Abu Bakr bin Mwengo
Title: Utenzi wa Wadi Isban

A poem in Swahili on Muhammad's victory over the army of Qatirifu

Incipit: بسم لله ادك وحده لا شريك دي / Bismillahi andika wahdahuu laa sharika ndiye

Language(s): Swahili

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Physical Description

Form: codex
4 f. 2 f. 14 f. 15 f. f. f. f. 10 f. 11 f.
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"Swahili Manuscripts Collections".

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Subjects

  • Lamu Island (Kenya)--History
  • Islamic poetry, Swahili
  • Swahili poetry

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