Author: Damir, Ben Ali ; Boulinier, Georges ; Ottino, Paul ; Latwif, Abdul [ Qadi, 'Umar ibn Abi Bakr al-Shirazi (19th century CE)]
Title: Traditions d’une lignée royale des Comores : l’Inya Fwambaya de Ngazidja [bound together with one other book on Comoros]
Description: Paris/ Beirut, [various], 1976-85. Half-cloth. 24x16cm, 191 + (234)pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This is a single volume containing two books on the Comoros bound together.Includes: 1) Ben Ali Damir, G. Boulinier, P. Ottino "Traditions d’une lignée royale des Comores : l’Inya Fwambaya de Ngazidja" [Paris : L’ Harmattan, 1985, 191 + 8pp plates, "Chronique d’Abdul Latwif": p. 97-177; Swahili text with French translation, ISBN 2858025190]; BOUND TOGETHER WITH: 2) 'Umar ibn Abi Bakr al-Shirazi Qadi (19th century CE) "Muslimische Inseln vor Ostafrika : eine arabische Komoren-Chronik des 19. Jahrhunderts"[Beirut/ Libanon; Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft / Wiesbaden : in Kommission bei F. Steiner, 1976 ;, hrsg. ü bers. und kommentiert von Gernot Rotter; xii,106,116 p. Series: Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 18. Includes 116pp facsimile plates of Arabic ms. Added title-page: "Juzur Islamiyah 'alá shati Ifriqiyah al-Sharqiyah" Includes Arabic text of Ahadith al-madi by al-Qadi 'Umar ibn Abi Bakr al- Shirazi, reproduced from ms. copy (p. 13-116) Introduction also in Arabic. ISBN 3515 018395].

Keywords: African Ethnology, Indian Ocean, East Africa, Historiography, History, Ethnohistory, Comoros, Archipelago,