To Homepage Taken from: Und die Araber bauten Mogadishu--: das Kitab al-Zanuj by Reinhard Klein-Arendt - 2004 Cerulli, Enrico: Somalia: scritti vari editi ed inediti (Rome 1957) Under is given my amateur translation of The Book of the Zanj, a manuscript although 19th century is too important to be unreachable for all those interested in the history of East Africa.
Fig: Sheikh Abu Bakr S. Muhiyiddiin (of the arab clan Al Faqi), Chief Qadi and Ulama in the 1920s. It was he who provided Cerulli with some rare and precious documents, helping him to reconstruct the history of the Arabs in Banaadir. He was the owner of the The Book of the Zanjis published by the famous scholar. The ancient documents, originally came from the archives of his grandfather, Mu’allim Mukarram who died in 1850, and his father S. Muhiyiddiin, well-known as Mufti of Banaadir.
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