Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the First Swahili Islamic Newspaper
A Swahili-English Edition
Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the First Swahili Islamic Newspaper
A Swahili-English Edition
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Guidance (Uwongozi) is a bi-lingual edition of a collection of essays from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper, Sahifa, written by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui (d. 1947) in Mombasa between 1930 and 1932. The collection was first printed locally in 1944.
Kai Kresse, PhD (2002), SOAS, University of London, is Associate Professor of African and Swahili Studies at MESAAS, Columbia University, New York. He has published on Swahili thinkers and society, African philosophy, Islam in East Africa and Indian Ocean connections. His book Philosophizing in Mombasa appeared in 2007. Sheikh al-Amin bin Ali Mazrui (1891-1947) was the most influential modernist Muslim thinker in East Africa in the 20th century.
Kai Kresse, PhD (2002), SOAS, University of London, is Associate Professor of African and Swahili Studies at MESAAS, Columbia University, New York. He has published on Swahili thinkers and society, African philosophy, Islam in East Africa and Indian Ocean connections. His book Philosophizing in Mombasa appeared in 2007. Sheikh al-Amin bin Ali Mazrui (1891-1947) was the most influential modernist Muslim thinker in East Africa in the 20th century.