Kilwa Chronicle

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.

Arabicکتاب
RomanizationKitāb al-Sulwa

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

  1. 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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