About this Collection
Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir, locally known as Ustadh Mau, is an eminent poet and imam from Lamu island, Kenya. His private library houses Swahili Muslim manuscript poetry in ajami script, and booklets and memoirs from the Middle East and India. Besides manuscript and print material, his library treasures include audio cassettes of his Friday sermons, delivered since 1986 from the oldest surviving mosque on Lamu. The digital collection serves as an Islamic heritage hub of Swahili intellectual history and poetic production.
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umadadigital@gmail.com
Funding Note
Digitization for the Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA) Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
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Description
This collection includes Mau’s Swahili poetry and sermons that reflect on education, social justice, morality and piety. The collection also includes his memoirs which reflects his thirst for knowledge and his social commitment.