'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975)
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 2018-08-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004365957 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004365958 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
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Book excerpt: This book presents Sufi poems from Brava (on Somalia’s Benadir coast) in the town’s vernacular (Chimiini). They allow insight into their authors’ intellectual world and show how the common people of this East African port city lived and learned Islam.