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Ustadh Mau
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Abbreviations

Abr.

Arberry, Arthur, J. The Quran Interpreted6

Am.

Kiamu dialect

Ar.

Arabic

Baj.

Kibajuni dialect

Bak.

Bakhressa, Salim K. Kamusi ya maana na matumizi7

Eng.

English

Krp.

Krapf, J.L. A Dictionary of the Suahili Language8

Kak.

Kamusi Kuu ya Kiswahili9

Kiung.

Kiunguja dialect

KNUT

Kenya National Union of Teachers

lit.

Literal meaning

Mau

Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir Mau

meth.

methali “proverb”

Mv.

Kimvita dialect

Nab.

Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany Kandi ya Kiswahili10

OUP

Oxford University Press

Qur.

Qurʾān

RISSEA

Research Institute of Swahili Studies of Eastern Africa

Scl.

Sacleux, C. Dictionnaire swahili-français11

Std.

Standard Swahili

stz.

stanza (Sw. ubeti)

syn.

synonym

6

Arthur J. Arberry, The Quran Interpreted (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).

7

Salim K. Bakhressa. Kamusi ya maana na matumizi. (Nairobi [etc.]: Oxford University Press cop. 1992).

8

John Ludwig Krapf. A Dictionary of the Suahili Language: With Introd. Containing an Outline of a Suahili Grammar. (London: Trubner, 1882).

9

John Mwaura Gicharu, Benjamin Nyangoma and Chris Oluoch. Kamusi Kuu ya Kiswahili (Nairobi: Longhorn Publishers Limited, 2015).

10

Nabhany Ahmed Sheikh, Kandi ya Kiswahili (Dar es Salam: Aera Kiswahili Researched Products, 2012).

11

Charles Sacleux, Dictionnaire swahili-français (Paris: Inst. d’Ethnologie, Univ. de Paris, 1939).

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In This Fragile World

Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau

Series:  Islam in Africa, Volume: 25