Al-Inkishafi Selected Text with Audio
This copy of Al-Inkishafi was collected by Hichens in the 1930s. The collector refers to it as an original copy, but this cannot be certain. It is certainly a beautiful and well-preserved manuscript of the famous poem written by Sayyd Abdalla bin Nassir. The pages of the poem in Arabic script are in...
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Al-Inkishafi [electronic resource] Selected Text with Audio Swahili. |
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| Other authors: | Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir. |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | Swahili |
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c. 1930.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. DISCIP. REGIONS. DREL. RAFR. ISLAMIC. SWAHILI. ILOAA. IASC. |
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Electronic Resource Click here to view record |
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| 001 | LOAA000079_00001 | ||
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| 008 | 140619n xx s swa d | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a MS 47770 |2 accession number | |
| 040 | |a LOA |c LOA | ||
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Al-Inkishafi |h [electronic resource] |b Selected Text with Audio |y Swahili. |
| 260 | |c c. 1930. | ||
| 490 | |a Hichens Collection. | ||
| 500 | |a First lines of manuscript: Bismillahi naiqadimu, Hali ya kutunga hino nudhumu, na Ar-Rahmani kiirasimu basi Ar-Rahimi nyuma ikaye | ||
| 500 | |a Mistari ya kwanza ya hati: Bismillahi naiqadimu, Hali ya kutunga hino nudhumu, na Ar-Rahmani kiirasimu basi Ar-Rahimi nyuma ikaye | ||
| 500 | |a Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir = Sayyid Abdallah Ali bin Nasir | ||
| 500 | |a Manuscript dates from circa 1930 A.D. (Gregorian calendar) = circa 1349 A.H. (Hijri calendar) | ||
| 500 | |a Composition dates from circa 1820 A.D. (Gregorian calendar) = circa 1235 A.H. (Hijri calendar). | ||
| 500 | |a Handwritten manuscript | ||
| 500 | |a Swahili text inscribed in Arabic script | ||
| 500 | |a Relevant Dialect: Kiamu | ||
| 500 | |a Biographical history: The author of the famous poem Al-Inkishafi is generally agreed to have been Sayyid Abdalla bin Sayyid Ali bin Nasir.His father, Ali bin Nasir, was the great grandson of Sheikh Abubakar bin Salim, mentioned in a version of the Pate Chronicle as a Sharif (descendant of the Prophet) from Arabia. Sayyid Abdalla lived and composed his poetry in Pate during the 19th century. | ||
| 500 | |a See also SOAS manuscripts MS 380548a, MS 256191, MS 253029, MS 196884d | ||
| 504 | |a Relevant publications: Sayyid Abdallah A. Nasir. 1972 (1939). Al-Inkishafi: The Soul's Awakening. Trans. and ed. by William Hichens. Nairobi: Oxford University Press. Sayyid Abdallah A. Nasir. 1977. Al-Inkishafi: Catechism of a Soul. Trans. and ed. by J. de Vere Allen. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau. Hichens, W. 1939. Al-Inkishafi. London: Sheldon Press Allen R. 1946. Inkishafi-A Traslation from the Swahili. African Studies, 5, pp.243-249 Harris, L. 1962. Swahili Poetry. Clarendon Press: Oxford, pp.86-102 Mlamali, Mh. Wa. 1980. Ikisiri ya Inkishafi. Nairobi: Longman Hamza Mustafa Njozi. 1998. The use of Ambiguity in Al-Inkishafi. Afrika und Ubersee, band 81, pp. 227-238. | ||
| 506 | |a This item is in the public domain. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office. | ||
| 520 | 2 | |a This copy of Al-Inkishafi was collected by Hichens in the 1930s. The collector refers to it as an original copy, but this cannot be certain. It is certainly a beautiful and well-preserved manuscript of the famous poem written by Sayyd Abdalla bin Nassir. The pages of the poem in Arabic script are inserted in an outsized hard paper so as to protect this very old copy. The collector has used the blank spaces on the side for his notes on the poem, unfortunately unreadable. This arabic script copy has transliteration and notes in MS 253029. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS, University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2014. |f (SOAS Digital Library) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. | ||
| 534 | |a Physical characteristics: original arabic scripts, inserted in an outsized hard white paper | ||
| 535 | 1 | |a Archives and Special Collections. | |
| 536 | |a Digitised with funding from the Leverhulme Trust. | ||
| 650 | |a Islam. | ||
| 650 | |a Swahili poetry. | ||
| 650 | |a Religious beliefs. | ||
| 650 | |a Uislamu. | ||
| 650 | |a Kiswahili mashairi. | ||
| 650 | |a Imani za kidini. | ||
| 655 | 4 | |a Poetry (Utenzi). | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Utenzi (poetic form). | |
| 662 | |a Kenya |c Lamu |d Pate |g Pate Island. | ||
| 700 | |a Abdallah ibn ʻAlī ibn Nāṣir. |4 cre | ||
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| 830 | 0 | |a ISLAMIC. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a SWAHILI. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a ILOAA. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a IASC. | |
| 852 | |a SOAS | ||
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