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The names of God in northern Somali
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London • 22 (I) • Published In 1959 • Pages: [title page], 134-140
By: Lewis, I. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a compilation of twenty-two Somali names for ALLAAH. The author also discusses the survival of the term WAAG, the pre-Islamic name for God, in Somali usages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Somali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee, Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Somalia, Djibouti, southeastern Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- I. M. Lewis
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 26023015
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Somalis