Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui : selections from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper : a Swahili-English edition / translated by Kai Kresse, Hassan Mwakimako ; Introduced and edited by Kai Kresse.
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TextLanguage: Swahili Original language: English Series: African Sources for African History ; 13. | Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill.Copyright date: c2017Edition: Swahili-English edDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 181 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004335547
- Uwongozi. English
- 297.09676209/04 23
- BP64.K46 U96 2017
Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-37) and index.
Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the First Swahili Islamic Newspaper. A Swahili-English Edition / Kai Kresse.
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Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui wrote his essays of this Guidance ( Uwongozi ) collection in Mombasa between 1930 and 1932, providing social critique and moral guidance to Kenya’s coastal Muslims during a period of their decline during British colonial rule. The essays were initially published as a series of double-sided pamphlets called Sahifa (The Page), the first Swahili Islamic newspaper. Inspired by contemporary debates of Pan-Islam and Islamic modernism, and with a critical eye on British colonialism, this leading East African modernist takes issue with his peers, in a sharply critical and yet often humorous tone. Al-Amin Mazrui was the first to publish Islamic educational prose and social commentary in Swahili. This bi-lingual edition makes fascinating reading for specialists and general readers.
In Swahili and English.
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