Ruler of Sharjah publishes novel "The Biography of Sultans Kilwa"

The 114-page novel contains eleven chapters and an appendix, a genealogical chain of the Sultans of Kilwa and dozens of Arabic and foreign sources and references.

His Highness was able, after verification and accurate scientific documentation, to remove and solve the confusion of an unknown and unknown shadow for decades about the history of Kiloh and based his study on the manuscript known as "The Book of Salwa in the History of Kilwa" and all that was written concerning it, besides the documents and manuscripts in the possession of His Highness concerning the genealogy and history of Persia, ancient and Portuguese documents, and other references and sources.

In the introduction to the book, His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah said: "It is a true historical novel that I wrote based on the manuscript of Salwa’s Book of Kilwa’s history. The authors and historians were from the coastal lands, which is the region currently known as the State of Kenya and the State of Tanzania, for what they know about me because I possess many manuscripts and documents, British and Portuguese. When I decided to write the history of East Africa, I contacted the British Library in London and acquired from it a photocopy of the manuscript known as the Book of Salwa in the History of Kilwa. I started studying that manuscript as well as studying everything written about that manuscript by Arab and foreign historians. Those who were unable to explain what was written in that manuscript as the matter became confusing for them. "

His Highness added: "From the study of that manuscript," Kitab Al Salwa fi Tarikh Kilwa, "it first became clear that the author was unknown, but he mentioned his date of birth in the manuscript, which is: the second Monday of Shawwal in the year nine hundred and four." Second, the manuscript was old, and this is evident from the date copied by Abdullah bin Musabah Al-Sawafi by order of Sultan Barghash bin Saeed bin Sultan in the year 1294 AH, corresponding to 1877 AD, and thus the manuscript was submitted for three hundred and fifty years ago. and depravity. Fourth: Of the ten chapters in the manuscript, three are missing, and I was able to cover them from Portuguese documents. Fifth: What did the manuscript say about the arrival of the Sultans from Shiraz to the African coast is a myth and the truth of contemporary manuscripts about the departure of the Sultan of Shiraz on that date? God Almighty, and with what I have of manuscripts of genealogy, the history of ancient Persia, and Portuguese documents, I was able to resolve the confusion for historians and write the story of a kidney in the form of a true and documented historical account. "

This book is the latest publication of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, who made 76 publications in the historical, theatrical, and literary fields, many of which were translated into 20 foreign languages.