al-Alfāẓ dhāt al-Aṣl al-ʻArabī fī Kitāb al-Muskirāt bi-al-Sawāḥilīyah li-Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sayf al-Ḥātimī: Jamʻ wa-Dirāsah wa-Taʼṣīl - Qashshār, Bilḥājj ibn ʻUmar; Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur (2026) (Mumbāsā) (Mumbāsā : Jamʻīyat al-Istiqāmah al-Khayrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-ʻĀlamīyah, 2026)
It is in the nature of human beings to travel the earth, and so it has always been; migrations occurred for religious and worldly reasons alike, and among the religious reasons was the spread of Islam, as the early Muslims set out to open lands, among them Africa, which lay next to the Arabian Peninsula, beginning from its east. There in that east lay Tanzania and its island of Zanzibar, and other neighbouring regions, where commercial relations with Omani regions had already been established, and these relations proved a fine thread in the spreading of Islam. Omani Muslims felt through history the importance of conveying the religion to the inhabitants of these regions and exerted themselves well in that task with such practical and scholarly strength as they possessed — among the scholarly means being the translation of books and their transfer into the language of those regions. With the contact of peoples there came a drawing of words from one language into another, and this study collects, studies and traces the etymology of the words of Arabic origin in this Swahili book.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-MOMBASA2026-017.
Conference theme (in Arabic): المحور الثالث: الأثر العربي في السواحلية.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Arabic loanwords; Swahili texts; al-Ḥātimī; Etymology; Zanzibar; Islamic literature