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Patricians of the Benaadir:

Islamic Learning, Commerce and Somali Urban Identity in the Nineteenth Century
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University of Pennsylvania, 1996 - City and town life - 381 pages

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Contents

Introduction
1
An Outline of Coastal Political History
31
Town Society
73
Copyright

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Abd al-Rahman Abdullah Abgaal Abu Bakr Abukar Hamud Sokorow agricultural Ahmadiyya Aidrus al-Barawi al-Din al-Qadri Sh alim Arab Ashraf Barawe Bardheere Benaadir Benaadir coast Biimaal Buur Haqaba Cassanelli Chapter Chiesi clan coastal merchants commercial Dheere East Africa economic elite export Ferrandi garrison Geledi Gobroon Guillain hagiographies Hajj Hajji Hasan Hawiye hinterland iama'a Ibn Battuta identity important Indian inland interior Interview Islamic Italian Jawhar Jawhar al-Nafis Jubba Jubba river late nineteenth Lettre dal Benadir Lugh Luuq maintained Majeerteen managib Marka mercantile Mombasa Muhammad Muhammed Muqdisho Muslim nineteenth century nomads noted Nurein Ahmad Sabr oral traditions pastoral pastoralists political Qadiri Qadiriyya Qassim reer Shaykh Mumin region religious Robecchi-Brichetti rural saints Sayyid scholars Sharif Shaykh Abd Shaykh Nurein Shaykh Uways Shebeelle sheikh slaves social Somali Somali Societv Somalia e Benadir spiritual stories sufi Sultan Swahili tariga town townsmen Tunni turug turuq ulama Umar urban society urbanites Xamarweyn Zanzibar Zayla'i Zeila

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TitlePatricians of the Benaadir: Islamic Learning, Commerce and Somali Urban Identity in the Nineteenth Century
AuthorScott Steven Reese
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania, 1996
Length381 pages
  
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