'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c.1890-1975), : A Source Publication of Chimiini Texts and English Translations.
This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers t...
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Superior document: | African sources for African history ; Volume 16 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African Sources for African History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (858 pages). |
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