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xv+342 with frontispiece, appendixes, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Edited and translated into English by J W T Allen, compiled in memorian with notes and studies by various Makerere colleagues, African, American, Asian, British and European. 1st edition.The present work began as a new edition of the Swahili text by J W T Allen, using modern orthography and developments in Swahili philology since the turn of the century (1903), when the volume was first published. It is complete and unabridged, except for the omission of a summary of the Law of Islam on certain matters. The Africans who wrote the Desturi were "pure Swahili persons" around the town of Bagamoyo in Tanzania, directly opposite Zanzibar Island. Int eh 1890s they were asked by Dr Carl Velten, a German linguist, to write down the traditions and customs of their people, which they did in Swahili, using Arabic script. From his introduction to the volumes he published in 1903,…
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The Customs of the Swahili People: The"desturi Za Waswahili" of Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari and Other Swahili Persons Hardcover - 1981
by Bin Mwinyi Mtoro; J. W. Allen (Editor)
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- Title The Customs of the Swahili People: The"desturi Za Waswahili" of Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari and Other Swahili Persons
- Author Bin Mwinyi Mtoro; J. W. Allen (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date December 18, 1981
- ISBN 9780520041226 / 0520041224
- Library of Congress subjects Swahili-speaking peoples - Social life and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81003387
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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