Abdulkadir Hashim, Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies Praise and Prestige: Significance of Elegiac Poetry among Muslim Intellectuals in the Late Twentieth Century Kenya Coast

Lidwien Kapteijns, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of History, Wellesley College, and Alessandra Vianello, Affiliated Researcher at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), ʻIlm and the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava, c. 1890–1925

Hassan Mwakimako, Associate Professor, Department of Religious and Philosophical Studies, Pwani University Kenya, “Swahili Islamic Manuscripts; the Friday khutba of Shaykh Al-Amin b. Ali al-Mazrui, 1890-1947.”

Kai Kresse, Associate Professor Columbia University, ‘Enduring relevance. Sample of Oral Poetry on the Swahili Coast

Panel chair: Chanfi Ahmed, Humboldt Universität

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