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Utenzi wa Kiyama

Scope and content: This version of the Utenzi wa Kiyama has 330 stanzas plus Qur'anic verses. Like MS 380530a, this 330-stanza manuscript does not appear to match any manuscript described by Allen (1971) or Knappert (1967).

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Full title:	Utenzi wa Kiyama [electronic resource].
Format:	Electronic
Language:	Swahili
Published:	[n.d.].
Series:	SOAS Digital Library. ASC. REGIONS. RAFR. ISLAMIC. SWAHILI. ILOAA. IASC.
Subjects:	Utenzi. Swahili poetry. Islam. Death. Religious belief. Heaven. Hell. Kiswahili mashairi. Uislamu. Kifo. Imani za kidini. Mbinguni. Kuzimu. ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر. Mohammed, Prophet, -632. Muhammad, Mtume, -632. Poetry (Utenzi). Utenzi (poetic form).
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Summary:	Scope and content: This version of the Utenzi wa Kiyama has 330 stanzas plus Qur'anic verses. Like MS 380530a, this 330-stanza manuscript does not appear to match any manuscript described by Allen (1971) or Knappert (1967).
Language:	Swahili
Published:	[n.d.].
Subjects:	Utenzi. Swahili poetry. Islam. Death. Religious belief. Heaven. Hell. Kiswahili mashairi. Uislamu. Kifo. Imani za kidini. Mbinguni. Kuzimu. ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر. Mohammed, Prophet, -632. Muhammad, Mtume, -632. Poetry (Utenzi). Utenzi (poetic form).
Series:	SOAS Digital Library. ASC. REGIONS. RAFR. ISLAMIC. SWAHILI. ILOAA. IASC.
Bibliography:	Relevant publications: Allen, J.W.T. 1971. Tendi. London: Heinemann Educational, pp. 429-485. Biersteker, Ann. 1996. Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry in Kiswahili. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. Hemed Abdallah Said al-Buhry. 1945. Utendi wa Qiyama. Ed. and trans. by Roland Allen. Special supplement to Tanganyika Notes and Records. Knappert, Jan. 1967. Traditional Swahili Poetry. Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 243-264. Sacleux, Charles. 1939. Dictionnaire Swahili-Francais. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, pp. 1094-1108.
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