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name: Al-Amin bin Ali Mazrui
about: Sheikh Al-Amin bin Ali Mazrui is one of the great men of letters in East African History. He was a writer, an editor, a critic of Swahili and Arabic poetry, a theologian, a newspaperman, and a social reformer.Sheikh Al-Amin is one of the stuff of which legends are made.Sheikh Al-Amin played the role of a bridge in a number of different senses:- As a Muslim he was both a modernist and a traditionalist.- He was a bridge between Africanity and Arabness through the connecting link of Swahilihood.- He had a high sense of both Arab identity and Swahili affliction, and wrote books and articles in both Kiswahili and the Arabic language.- He appreciated classical Swahili poems like Al-Inkishafi and Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona, and explored Arabic poetry Sheikh Al-Amin bin Ali Mazrui is one of the great men of letters in East African History. He was a writer, an editor, a critic of Swahili and Arabic poetry, a theologian, a newspaperman, and a social reformer.Sheikh Al-Amin is one of the stuff of which legends are made.Sheikh Al-Amin played the role of a bridge in a number of different senses:- As a Muslim he was both a modernist and a traditionalist.- He was a bridge between Africanity and Arabness through the connecting link of Swahilihood.- He had a high sense of both Arab identity and Swahili affliction, and wrote books and articles in both Kiswahili and the Arabic language.- He appreciated classical Swahili poems like Al-Inkishafi and Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona, and explored Arabic poetry all the way back to Antar Ibn Shaddad of al-Muallaqat (a collection of poems from the 8th to the 12th Century of the Christian era). ...more