{"id":571,"date":"2016-04-15T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=571"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:48:55","slug":"sayyid-abdallah-bin-ali-bin-nasir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=571","title":{"rendered":"Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sayyid Abdallah is the author of the famous homiletic poem,<em> Al Inkishafi.<\/em> Hardly anything is known of his life; though he is remembered as a theologian and poet. \u00a0He lived sometime between the years 1720 &#8211; 1820 in the Lamu Archipelago. \u00a0He is also the author of the\u00a0<em>Takhmis ya Liongo<\/em> (Harries 1962:188). \u00a0His kinsman, Sayyid al-Mansab, b. 1828-29 in Lamu (d. 1922), is the author of several extant poems. \u00a0Hichens (1939:9-16) discusses in detail other relatives of his who composed poetry. \u00a0Harries, based on Hichens&#8217; analysis of the poem, gives a synopsis of what is known (1962:86-88).<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Poems<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Al Inkishafi<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Naapa kwa Mungu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayyid Abdallah is the author of the famous homiletic poem, Al Inkishafi. Hardly anything is known of his life; though he is remembered as a theologian and poet. \u00a0He lived sometime between the years 1720 &#8211; 1820 in the Lamu Archipelago. \u00a0He is also the author of the\u00a0Takhmis ya Liongo (Harries 1962:188). \u00a0His kinsman, Sayyid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions\/627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}