Athar al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah fī al-Lughah al-Sawāḥilīyah: Tajribah Maydānīyah Wāqiʻīyah "Zanjibār wa-Muḥāfaẓat Tābūrā Unmūdhajan" - Būdāqī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥammū ibn Bukayr; 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)
This paper proceeds from the experience the author gained from 2002 onwards in teaching sections of students arriving from Tanzania at the Maʿhad al-Ḥayāh in al-Qarārah in Algeria until 2006; then from four years as a student at the Institute of Sharia Sciences in Oman; and then from seven years in Tanzania as a teacher of Arabic and the religious subjects, supervisor of extracurricular Arabic activities and subsequently director, under the supervision of the Zanzibari Istiqama Association and the Tijārah al-Rābiḥah Association, both directed by a distinguished group of Omanis. Through this the author discovered several points shared between Omani and Zanzibari society, and the experience allowed a close view of Omani effects in the missionary, scholarly, intellectual, social and architectural spheres. The research asks: what are the most important surviving Omani effects in present-day Zanzibar, and what are the aspects of the influence of Arabic and of the Omani dialect upon Swahili speech?
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-MOMBASA2026-006.
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 influence; Swahili; Zanzibar; Tabora; Field study; Language contact