Index
Abdalla, Abdilatif
3, 72, 101, 120, 126
Abdalla of Shela, Thinana bin
51
Abdallah, Sayyid Omar
6, 14
‘abjād
83
adabu
34, 36, 110, 144
adulte initié
70, 74
ahlul-sunna
24
Al-Azhar University
16, 76
Al-Hussein Original Shop
147
Al-Najah Primary School
52
Alawy, Sayyid Abdulrahman
13
Ali Waleedi, Aisha
59
Amu (poem)
4, 74, 95–96, 126–127, 160, 173–185, 205–206, 277, 286–287
Annaswiha Women Group
21, 223
Answar Sunna
see ahlul-sunna
‘Aqqād, ʿAbbās Mahmūd al-
6, 79–80, 91
Aredy, Swaleh
147
Asilia Bakery
15, 21, 40–41, 51–52, 97, 122–125, 319, 324, 359
ʾAthar al-ʿArab fī al-ḥadārah al-ʾUrubiyyah
80
Athman, Sayyid ʿIdarusi bin
48
āyah (pl., āyāt)
32, 83, 85, 173, 336, 350, 352–353
Badawy, Sayyid Hassan
15, 22, 52, 70–71
Bajuni islands
16
Bandari ina mawimbi (poem)
36, 95–96, 117, 174, 186–189, 331
Banna, Hassan al-
18
bara
42–44, 201, 211
Barigoni
196
Bayreuth University
4–5, 7, 11
Baytu Thaqafa
70
bidʿa
54
Bulʿarāf, Ahmad
76, 92, 377
busara
98–99
Bwana Muyaka
see Hajj, Muyaka bin
Bwanamaka, Sauda Kasim
59
Cairo
6, 71, 76–78, 81, 377
Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao
11, 101
Chiraghdin, Shihabuddin
140, 206, 209
Comoros
49–51, 69
Dar es Salaam
15, 41, 50–51, 329
District Commissioner
29, 68
dura al-mandhuma
153, 274
Education Trust Committee
30
elimu
26, 42, 55–56, 69, 74, 82, 84, 86, 88–89, 117, 196–217
Faiz Bookshop
83
Farasi (area of Lamu)
70
Farsi, Sheikh Abdallah Saleh al-
6, 14, 57, 81
fasihi
109–110
Fi sabil al-Iṣlāḥ
141
fiqh
52, 81
Fumo Liyongo
109
Ghazali, Abu Hamid al-
80–81
gungu
36
Habib Saleh
15, 24, 49, 51–53, 69, 330
Hadhramawt
23–24, 48–50
Hafi asiye timiwa (poem)
179, 302, 319–323
Haji, Muyaka bin
57, 109, 140, 204, 206, 208, 212
Haki za watoto (poem)
41, 45, 56–58, 61, 63, 95, 98, 106, 108, 110–111, 120, 122, 125–127, 235–273
Hapo zamani za yana (poem)
4, 53, 59, 171, 173, 231, 236, 329–354, 357
hekima
98
heshima
31, 34, 36, 108–109, 125, 343
homme de lettre
110
huruma
58, 171, 218–318
Iḥiyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn
80
ilimu
see elimu
Indonesia
50
Inkishafi, Al-
49, 65, 72, 116–117, 124, 129, 208–209, 211, 333, 337, 371
Islam al-sawti, al-
133, 379
Jahazi (poem)
59, 61–63, 105, 124–127, 172–173, 190–191, 324
Jamhuri Day
29, 72
Jamia Mosque
21, 23
jamii
88, 90, 142, 171, 175–195
Japan
57, 117, 192, 205
Jilbabu (poem)
35, 172, 223–228
Jukwaani Festival
3, 121, 218
Juma Bhalo Sayyani, Ahmad Nassir
3, 13, 20, 209
Kadara
146–147, 154
kanu (Kenya African National Union)
248
Kasim, Sheikh Muhammad
55, 139
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (kcse)
x
Kenya High School
360, 362
Kenya National Union of Teachers
196
Kenyatta, Uhuru
123
Kerala
50
Kezilahabi, Euphrase
159
Khaldun, Ibn
150
Kiamu dialect
3, 41, 43, 47, 57, 61, 64, 138, 145–146, 173, 175
Kibajuni dialect
173
Kijitoni
70
Kijuma, Muhamadi
3
Kikuyu language
139, 211
Kimvita dialect
138–139, 145, 173, 320
Kilio huliya mwenye (poem)
36, 41, 45, 57, 172, 192, 200–205
Kimwondo (genre)
36–37
Kimwondo (poem)
2, 17, 58, 146–148
Kipande cha ini (poem)
59–60, 71, 356–359
kipawa
63
Kishamia
49
Kisumu
211
Kiswahili (poem)
2, 17, 42–43, 45, 49, 57–58, 61, 140, 192, 200, 206–213
kite
112–113, 118, 122, 125, 128, 242
kitendo
13, 26, 220
kiti cha enzi
132
Kiunguja dialect
281, 320
Kiwandeo
46
Kizingitini
16
Krapf, Johann Ludwig
57
kujibizana
17, 35, 105
Kutch
16
kutiwa sauti
154
Kuwait
135, 150
Laisa min al-Islam
54, 81
Lake Victoria
211
Lamu District Education Board
52
Lamu District Magistrate Court
15
Lamu Museum
4, 200, 235
Lamu Muslim Youth
30
Lamu Old Town (“Lamu town”)
14–15, 70, 176, 187
Lamu West Constituency aids Committee
52
Lamu Youth Alliance
19
Langoni (area of Lamu)
75, 83
lappset (Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport Corridor project)
165
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
27
loho
73
Maʿalim fi al-Tariq
82
Machakos Muslim Institute
16, 52
Madhubuti, Abubakar
176
Madrasatul Falah
16
mafumbo
6, 104–105, 161, 173
Malabar coast
16
Malaysia
50, 149
Malindi
51, 324, 329
Mama msimlaumu (poem)
3, 59, 61, 63, 95, 97, 119, 122, 125–127, 172, 179, 218–222
Manda
44
Mani Bookshop
83
maombi
171, 328–368
Marxism
100–101
mashairi
36, 104, 106–107, 148, 177
masharifu
16, 24, 344
masharti
60
matukio
171, 319–327
Mau Mau
11
Maulidi
11, 24–25, 53–54
Maulidi Barzanji
48
maweko
26
Mazrui, Sheikh Al-Amin
6, 14, 55, 71
Mbarak, Barka Aboud
51, 153, 168
Mbwana Radio Station
147
Mchezo wa kuigiza (poem)
7, 35, 172–173, 228–234
Mecca
48, 77, 350
mila
54
Mlango (poem)
51, 97, 122, 124–128, 172, 179, 324–327, 331
Mngumi, Zahidi
140
Mohammed-Nagar (Gujarat)
50
Mokowe
44, 51, 329
Mola zidisha baraka (poem)
7, 35, 172, 174, 360–364
Mombasa
2–4, 11–14, 26–28, 34–35, 43–44, 51–52, 55, 57–58, 66, 81, 138–139, 147, 158, 206, 208–210, 301, 319, 371–372
Msallam, Sheikh Ahmad
16–17, 26, 28
mshairi wa jamii
100–101
msomaji
147, 151–152, 154
Mtamuini (area of Lamu)
30, 51, 143
mtu wa watu
5, 13–27, 374
mtungaji
3, 151
Muhadhari, Ghalib
147
Mukharati (poem)
59
Mumbai
76, 377
mungwana
108–110, 331
Muqaddima
150
Muslim Academy in Zanzibar
14
Muslim Brotherhood
18
Muṣṭafā al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī
76–77
Muṭālaʿāt fī al-Kutub wa-al-ḥayāh
80
Mwalimu (poem)
7, 36, 73, 85–86, 196–199
Mwalimu Saggaf
see Alawy, Sayyid Abdulrahman
mwalimu wa jamii
12–13, 21, 23
Mwengo Athmani
208
Mwengo Bakari
114
Mwenye Mansab
48–49
mwimbaji
154
Mzamil, Mzamil Omar
146
Nabahany, Ahmed Sheikh
3, 98, 140, 206, 208–209, 371
Nairobi
3, 21, 23, 26, 43–44, 52, 72, 218, 223, 357, 360
Nās wa-al-ḥaqq
79, 82
Nasrudin
329, 332, 335, 337, 352, 357
Neto, Agostinho
100
ngomeni
14, 187
Ngong Forest
218
Nyerere, Julius
13, 100
nyimbo (genre)
36, 224
Nyuma ya Gereza (area of Lamu)
70
Oman
50
Omani Empire
50
Omdurman Islamic University
16
organization, community-based
21
Pakistan
135
Pate
46, 48–49, 59–60, 95, 109, 206, 208–209, 248
Persia
57, 172, 204, 214, 216
Portuguese incursion
50, 132, 217
print Islam
39, 77–78
pwani
42, 44, 137, 191
Pwani Mosque
15, 19, 23, 52, 70
Qaradawi, Yusuf al-
6–7, 79, 82, 365
Qurʾān
32, 36, 51, 53–57, 71, 73, 173, 226, 231, 235, 329–330, 346, 350
Qutb, Sayyid
18, 82
Ramadan
52, 87–88, 175, 227, 287, 345
Ramani ya maisha ya ndowa (poem)
30, 59, 97, 107, 127
Rashid Rida, Muhammad
71, 81
Risālat al-Jāmiyya
149
Riyadha Mosque
15–16, 24, 49–52, 69, 75, 330, 335
ruhuma
112–114, 118, 120–122, 125, 127, 221, 266
Sacleux, Charles
109–110, 112, 210, 238
Saʿīd ul-Būsīrī, Muhammad ibn
48
Salafism
1–2, 16, 24–25, 56, 81–82
Saudi Arabia
25, 52, 54, 135, 150, 173, 228, 357
Sauti ya dhiki
72, 120, 155
Sauti ya haki
14, 71, 139
sauti ya mahadhi
154–155
Sayyid Saleh Alwy Jamalail
see Habib Saleh
School of Oriental and African Studies (soas)
27, 48, 208
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
100
Shafiʾi school
81
Shatry, Abdallah el-
4, 147, 154, 275
Shii Ithnashari Islam
15
Shiite community
24
shiʿr al-ghināʾī, al-
138
shiʿr al-taʿlīmī, al-
138
Shirazi influence on Lamu
214–216
Siraji (poem)
107
sitara
31, 125–126
Siu
59, 143, 154, 173, 208, 353
Six Characters in Search of an Author
134, 158, 379
Somalia
17, 60, 77–78, 223, 254
Sudan
16, 19, 23, 42, 52, 60, 76, 186
Sufism
2, 24, 54–55, 78, 81, 116, 150, 376
ṣuḥba
71
Sumayṭ, Aḥmad b.
76
Sunni Islam
24, 50
Surat, port of
16
Surti community of Gujarat
50
Swafaa Mosque
15, 24
Tabaraka
48
tabia njema
86
Tabuk
47
Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ al-
78
Tana River
319
Ṭanṭawi, Sheikh Ali al-
82, 135–137, 140–141, 144, 148, 150, 275, 316, 379
tathlitha
xii
Thamaratul Jannah
21
Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa
79–80, 139
Tunda (poem)
59, 355
Tupijeni makamama (poem)
18, 89, 192–195
ubao
73, 85
ujuzi
21, 26, 84, 88, 128
Ukimwi ni zimwi (poem)
18, 37, 58
Umm al-Qurā
48
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
56
Ustadh Harith
11–12, 16, 54, 81
Utendi na Miqdadi na Mayasa
138–139
Utendi wa Mwana Kupona
30–31, 47, 107, 138, 143, 157, 208, 274–275, 336, 347, 349
Utendi wa Tambuka
47, 208, 309
Utendi wa vita vya Uhd
139
Utendi wa Yusuf
4
utu
13, 103
Utu ni vitendo
13
Wahhabism
24–25, 43, 54, 81
wajibu
100, 177, 270, 366
wasiya (genre)
4, 59, 64, 142, 144, 171–172, 235–236, 262, 272, 329–330
Wasiya wa mabanati (poem)
2, 6–7, 18, 20, 58, 60, 97, 133–134, 136, 147, 172, 274–318, 379
Ya-bintī
82, 93, 133, 135–137, 140–141, 143–144, 148, 150, 164, 173, 275
Yasome na kukumbuka (poem)
7, 365–370
Za Washirazi athari (poem)
7, 36, 172, 192, 214–217
Zanzibar
14, 46, 50, 70, 76–77, 149, 214–215
Zarnuji, Burhan al-Din al-
73
Zayn al-Ḥibshī, Aḥmad b.
149
ziyara
24