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'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975): A Source Publication of Chimiini Texts and English Translations

By Alessandra Vianello (Editor), Lidwien Kapteijns (Editor), Mohamed Kassim (Editor)
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By Alessandra Vianello (Editor), Lidwien Kapteijns (Editor), Mohamed Kassim (Editor)
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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 towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyya...

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