Sheikh Aliy Hemed Abdallah al-Buhriy (Hemedi bin Abdallah Buhriy, Hemedi b. Abdallah el-Buhry, Shaykh Ali Hemed al-Buhriy, Shayk Ali Hemedi, or Shayk 'Ali ibn Humayd, 1889-1957) was a well-known East African religious muslim scholar and poet born in Tanga, Tanzania, then called Mtangata in German East Africa, and later in British Tanganyika Territory. Al-Buhriy wrote in Swahili and partly in Arabic script. As Sheikh Ali Hemed he was the last qāḍī (qadi, muslim judge) under British rule from 1921 to 1935.Chande 2021.Anderson 1954, p. 137.Schacht 1965, pp. 109-114.Mintz 1983, p. 23.Samsom 2015, pp. 203-207.van de Bruinhorst 2024, pp. 55-56.
Publications Al-Buhriy's publications include: Search for au="Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah" Original edition 1924. 72 pages.
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Literature Earlier edition 1954.