Kilwa Chronicle
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| Arabic | کتاب |
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| Romanization | Kitāb al-Sulwa |
The Kilwa Chronicle is a text, believed to be based on oral tradition, which describes the origins of the Swahili city-state of Kilwa, on an Indian Ocean island near the East African coast. It recounts the genealogy of the rulers of the Kilwa Sultanate.
Two sources of the Chronicle exist: the Kitāb al-Sulwa in Arabic and a Portuguese version that is a section of the book Décadas da Ásia by the historian João de Barros. [1] The genealogical account is similar in both versions but other details vary substantially.[1]
Sources
- João de Barros (1552) Décadas da Ásia: Dos feitos, que os Portuguezes fizeram no descubrimento, e conquista, dos mares, e terras do Oriente., Dec. I, Lib. 8, Cap. 6 (p. 223ff)
- Strong, S. Arthur (1895) "The History of Kilwa, edited from an Arabic MS", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January (No volume number), pp. 385–431. online
References
- ^ a b Delmas, Adrien (2017), "Writing in Africa: The Kilwa Chronicle and other Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Testimonies", written at Boston, in Brigaglia, Andrea; Nobili, Mauro (eds.), The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 189, ISBN 9783110541441, OCLC 1075040220
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