B. G. Martin, 'Muslim Politics and Resistance to Colonial Rule: Shaykh Uways b. Muhammad al-Barawi and the Qadiriya Brotherhood in East Africa' (Journal of African History, 1969)

B. G. Martin's study in the Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press, 1969, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 471–486) of Shaykh Uways b. Muhammad al-Barawi (1847–1909) as an important leader of the Qadiriyya brotherhood in southern Somalia, on Zanzibar and along the East African coast from Kenya to Mozambique and founder of its Uwaysiyya branch, his considerable missionary activity, and his assassination in 1909 by representatives of the rival Salihiyya brotherhood.

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