TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazrui,Al-Amin Bin Ali
AU  - Kresse,Kai
AU  - Mwakimako,Hassan
TI  - Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: selections from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper : a Swahili-English edition 
T2  - African sources for African history,
SN  - 9789004335547
AV  - BP64.K46 U96 2017
U1  - 297.09676209/04 23
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Religious life and customs
N1  - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004335547
ER  -