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The Translation Movement in Zanzibar between Liberation and Development

Ḥarakat al-Tarjamah fī Zanjibār bayna al-Taḥrīr wa-al-Taṭwīr

حركة الترجمة في زنجبار بين التحرير والتطوير

Ḥājj Aḥmad Ḥammū Krūm
حاج أحمد حمو كروم
Conference: The Second Istiqama International Conference: Omanis and the Swahili World — Influence and Interaction — Mombasa, 2026
Romanized conference title: Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-MOMBASA2026-011

Abstract

God honoured the human being with the faculty of speech, that he might express what lies within himself, the thoughts of his mind and the feelings of his heart, and communicate with others in his private and public sphere; and the person near at hand needed to convey his thoughts to the person far away by means of writing, and so invented the letters that compose words and sentences to render thought and feeling. Thus languages and dialects came into being and purposes and cultures varied among peoples and civilizations. In order to exchange ideas between states and individuals, people learned and mastered the languages of others by means of translation, and ideas spread among peoples and civilizations. Among the countries in which translation ranged widely is Zanzibar in African Tanzania, whose people struggled resolutely in resisting negative cultures and embraced the positive cultures that came to their land from centuries past to the present day. This paper examines that translation movement.

Keywords

Translation historyZanzibarSwahiliCultural exchangeTanzania

How to cite

Krūm, Ḥājj Aḥmad Ḥammū. "Ḥarakat al-Tarjamah fī Zanjibār bayna al-Taḥrīr wa-al-Taṭwīr" [The Translation Movement in Zanzibar between Liberation and Development]. Paper presented at Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur, Mumbāsā, 2026. MHF-MOMBASA2026-011

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