{"id":85,"date":"2014-08-02T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2017-12-14T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:19:44","slug":"muyaka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muyaka, as he is commonly referred to, was born circa 1776 and died in 1840 (Harries 1962:208). \u00a0Most of his writing, approximately 150 extant poems, was probably done from 1810 &#8211; 1840. \u00a0These were preserved for us by Wm. Taylor and \u00a0Muhammadi Sikujua. \u00a0For more information on Muyaka see Abdulaziz 1979, Harries 1962, and Knapper 1979:141. There is also Hichens&#8217; small work in Swahili (1940) entitled\u00a0<em>Diwani ya Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy. Pamoja na khabari za maisha yake.\u00a0<\/em>This seems to be the source for an article on Muyaka in the online Encyclopedia Britannica q.v.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:\u00a0\u00a0M. A. Bryan (1942). Review of W. Hichens &#8216;Diwani ya Muyaka Bin Haji al-Ghassaniy&#8217; <em>Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies<\/em> 10:1055-1056.<\/p>\n<p>His works included here are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=177\">Mwina wa Chiza Mbwi Chile<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=509\">K&#8217;ongowea ni T&#8217;uu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=175\">K&#8217;ongowea Yaugua<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=97\">Ngome ni Ngome<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muyaka, as he is commonly referred to, was born circa 1776 and died in 1840 (Harries 1962:208). \u00a0Most of his writing, approximately 150 extant poems, was probably done from 1810 &#8211; 1840. \u00a0These were preserved for us by Wm. Taylor and \u00a0Muhammadi Sikujua. \u00a0For more information on Muyaka see Abdulaziz 1979, Harries 1962, and Knapper &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/?page_id=85\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/swahilipoetry.humnet.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/897"}],"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=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}