Sheikh Ahmed bin Haji was a Banadiri scholar in the late 19th century, he rose to prominence based on his defiance and long resistance against Italian Colonial rule and also being a religious reformer.BiographySheikh Ahmed bin Haji Mahdi bin Amin bin Aweis was born in Hamar presumably in the third decade
East African Pan-Islamic revival owes much debt to the struggles of the Qadiri leader Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Baraawi. Sheikh Uways was another famous scholar that was born in Barawa, as a young teenager, he studied theological science and philosophy. He later on went and studied with eminent scholars
Sheikh Qassim al Barawi was born in Barawa from the Raa Waa’ili clan, he was famously known for the many Qasa’id (Religious Poems) he wrote. He was multilingual so wrote poems in both Arabic and Chimbalazi (Barawa language), and Somali, it is said that he was the first to write the standard Bravanese
Some of the greatest mashā'ikh of Hadīth—such as Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (673/1274–748/1348), Zayn al-Dīn al-‘Irāqī (725/1325–806/1404), Ibn Nāsir al-Dīn al-Dimishqī (777/1375–842/1438), Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqrīzī (764/1364–845/1442), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalanī (773/1372– 852/1449), Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (831/1428–902/1497),
Zheng He (1371 to 1435)We owe the first eye-witness account of Brava to the Chinese travellers of the early fifteenth century. The Chinese fleet, under the leadership of Admiral Cheng Ho (also known as Zeng He), undertook several voyages to the Western Indian Ocean from 1417 to 1431, (Filesi, 1975).
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Your source of information and database for topics related to the Banadir Region, and the Swahili Coast, with the addition of a reading list section where readers can gain access to various historical and rare collections and books written on the Banadir and Swahili Coast.
Role and Contribution of Shaykh Abdallah Salih Al-Farsy to Islamic Poetry
Author - Mohamed Mraja
Museo Della Garesa Catalogo Mogadiscio – Catalogue of the Garesa Museum in Mogadishu
Author - Regio Governo Della Somalia
Encyclopedia of African History & Culture: Volume II – African kingdoms (500 to 1500)
Author - Willie F. Page
Meeting Place Zanzibar: Ahmad ibn Sumayt and Harold Ingrams
Author - Anne K. Bang
The ‘Republic’ of Barawa: A Neglected Historical Problem
Author - Mike Dash
Great Scholars of Zanzibar in the 18th to 19th Century
The Omani Sultanate in Zanzibar were known to be the pinnacle players in the success of the Swahili coast of East Africa, from defeating Portugal
Shaykh Qassim and Barawa’s Islamic response to Italian Missionaries
Barawa has long been a hub of the Qadiriya Sufi tariqa and was a preeminent centre of ‘ilm and scholarship in Somalia. With the advent
The Origins of Barawa
Overview Barawa is located in the Southwest of Somalia, and southernmost city of the Banadir coast. It lies approximately 200km south of Mogadishu and 100km
Shaykh Ahmad al-Badawī al-Wālī (1910-1990)
He was born in Barāwa around the year 1915 CE. Early in life, he was a trader and had a shop that imports goods from