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Swahili

السواحلية

Language of the East African coast; born at the crossing of trade and Islam, with old religious manuscripts in Arabic script.

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The language of the East African coast; it arose at the crossroads of trade and Islam, and has old religious works in Arabic script. 1

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God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

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islam.museum contributors. “Swahili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/swahili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.