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Abstract It has become commonplace for scholars to speak of cities, especially colonial cities, as texts in which power relations are embedded. This article presents the findings of six years' research, including archival research, interviewing and fieldwork on the planning and development of Zanzibar. I concentrate on house-building and domestic environments in the city's historic African neighbourhoods, known as Ngʼambo, or the ‘Other Side’. Struggles for cultural hegemony are evident in struggles over Zanzibar's built environment during the twentieth century. The focus is on how the legal language defining house types and establishing building codes, developed under colonialism, became a tactical instrument of the powerful in asserting spatial dominance. Yet the enforcement of the building code often showed the limits of colonial and local elite attempts at hegemony, especially at the end of the colonial era. Throughout the century, the words for African traditional housing and neighbourhood types in Zanzibar have betrayed the disdain with which the powerful have viewed them. There is, however, an order and plan to the ‘unplanned building’ which still dominates the city. , Résumé Il est devenu banal pour les érudits de parler des villes, particulièrement des villes coloniales, en tant que textes dans lesquels les rapports de pouvoir sont incrusté. Cet article présente les données de six années de recherches, y compris des recherches d'archive, des entrevues, et des enquêues de terrain sur la planification et le developpement à Zanzibar. Je me concentre sur le bâtiment des maisons et les environnements domestiques dans les quartiers africains historiques de la ville, connus comme Ngʼambo ou ‘l'autre côté’. La lutte pour l'hégémonie culturelle est évidente dans les conflits concernant le milieu bâti à Zanzibar pendant le vingtième siècle. Le centre d'interêt est sur la façon dont le langage officiel qui définit les types de maison et établit les codes de construction, qui avaient été développés sous le colonialisme, étaient devenu un instrument tactique de la part de ceux qui sont puissant pour imposer la domination de l'espace. Cependant, la mise en vigueur des codes de construction a souvent démontré la limitation des efforts de l'élite coloniale et locale quant à avoir l'hégémonie, surtout à la fin de la période coloniale. A travers le siècle, les mots pour l'habitat traditionnel africain et les types d'habitats dans les quartiers de Zanzibar ont laissé voir le dédain avec lequel ceux qui sont puissant les avaient traité. Il y a cependant un ordre et un plan de la ‘ville non-planifiée’ qui domine toujours la ville.
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The tribal lands of the Luba of Mulongo, situated at the extreme north of the Upemba depression are not only an almost obligatory point of passage for those coming from the east en route to the heart of the Luba but are also an important market. It is therefore a very useful place to study the Arab-Swahili penetration in the kingdom of Luba in the nineteenth century, especially as one of the first merchants to reach this chefferie was none other than Tippo Tip. In his autobiography, he briefly speaks of his incursions in Luba but up to now, no other source has permitted the verification or the completion of the information provided by Tippo Tip.An unpublished administrative report dating from 1909, written up from the oral tradition of the precedent century, tells of power struggles between two rival lineages of the Mulongo royalty. The report not only provides a complete ancestry of the chiefs but also allows the accurate dating of the stages of Arab-Swahili penetration in the kingdom of Luba. Furthermore, this document refers to the passage of Tippo Tip in the region and gives us much information regarding the events that took place during his stay. The congruence of the sources enables a relatively detailed chronology of the passage of Tippo Tip to be established and a better definition of the forms of the penetration and the political domination of Arab-Swahili at the heart of the Luba empire.
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Written in 1711, about a decade after the Omanis occupied the island, by Faṭima binti Muḥammad, addressed to Mwinyi Jumaa, probably from Mombasa.
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Scattered among the Arabic books and MSS section of the Zanzibar Archives are a number of books written by, or which contain ownership of Waqfiyya notices written by, various members of the Mundhirī family. The Mundhiris were cultivated scholars through at least three generations, who not only collected and endowed MSS, but also wrote them. The family was established in the Malindi quarter of Zanzibar city before Sayyid Saʿīd b. Sulṭān finally settled on the island in 1832. ʿAlī b. Muḥ. al-Mundhirī did most to establish and consolidate the Waqf of books. Although only fragments of his work survive, what we do have gives much information about the intellectual climate in Zanzibar at the end of the 19th century. A list of titles included in the Waqf is included in the article.
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Photocopy of pp. 137-138 (Sultan Barghash, Ibāḍīs).
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This paper depicts social and cultural life in Zanzibar early 20th century, with special emphasis on the important role played by the Shāfiʿī Qāḍīs Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Sumayṭ (1861-1925), Burhān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Amawī (1861-1935) and Ṭāhir b. Abī Bakr al-Amawī (1877-1938), and the Ibāḍī Qāḍī ʿAlī b. Muḥ. al-Mundhirī (1866-1925). A description of the Zanzibar legal system at the time is given, and questions like Waqf regulations, religious instruction and the language question (Swahili-Arabic) are treated.
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