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Marriage that never was…Zuwayna and her two sisters crossed Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma inGerman East Africa and then went to Tabora where their father’sbusiness partner, Sulayman bin Zahir al-Jabri, resided.Sulayman had been established in the interior for many years andenjoyed good credit in Zanzibar from the Indian financiers of theivory trade. Zuwayna lived with Sulayman and his family, and it waswith him that the young suitor Sulayman bin Sleyum was to finalizethe wedding.
Marriage that never was…Old Sulayman bin Zahir was ill when the wedding day arrived, and hehad to ask his trusted slave, Marjani bin Othman to conclude thewedding arrangements. Everyone wore their finery, and whenSulayman bin Sleyum arrived, he was well dressed in Omani style,with a long white kanzu [dishdasha] and a joho, the woolen cloakfavored by well-to-do Arabs for occasions such as these. Sulaymanbin Sleyum greeted Marjani and the assembled group, “Al-Salaam‘alaykum,” and the servant Marjani answered, “Wa’alaykum alsalam,ya shaykh Sulayman.”Sulayman corrected the slave. He was not a shaykh, he said, but aservant of shaykhs. With that, as the story is told, the wedding wascalled off. Sulayman bin Sleyum was a baysar, and thus, to Omanisand their trusted slaves, unfit for marriage to an Omani of noblebirth.
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Page 5 and 6: The Omanis in ZanzibarSayyid Said
Page 7 and 8: ‘Omani Sultans’
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Page 35 and 36: Askari with Convicts (Zanzibar)
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