Who rests here
Scholar · died 1354 AH · Lamu
Habib Swaleh was a Hadrami sayyid of the Ba 'Alawi lineage (descendants of the Prophet via the Jamal al-Layl clan), born in the Comoros and settled in Lamu in the 1880s. Between 1885 and 1892 he founded the Riyadha Mosque and college, which became the foremost center of Islamic learning on the East African coast.
Full biography of Habib Saleh bin Alawi Jamal al-Layl (Habib Swaleh) →(the text above is quoted from the person's record)
How to get there
Located in: Lamu
Coordinates: -2.27100, 40.90110
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Permanent ID: EA-Y-000377 · this address reaches the same record even if its name changes; use it when citing.