what is Comorian literature?

Many people say that the first Comorian writer was Mohamed Toihiri, the author of Le Kafir du Karthala (1992). But for me, the archipelago's hypothetical literacy inscribes in a greater context as a part of the "maritime Islam" of the Indian ocean and the Swahili coast of East Africa. Although the Islamic culture is not of a great antiquity, the islands knew Sufi tarikas, and thus necessarily their esoteric doctrines and their peculiar poetic imagination. Al-Shadhiliyya, or its local branch on Zanzibar, spread up to Comoros in 1880s. This specific local school took up the name of al-Yashrutiyya. The central role in Comoros' intellectual and spiritual life was played by the scholars and masters belonging to a Hadrami family, Al bin Sumayt, whose protoplast reached the archipelago in late 19th century. There were also other respected figures, such as Sheikh Yahaya Abdallah Salim (1901-1981).
Of course, quite a different literary tradition appeared on the islands with the French colonisation. 

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Bibliography:
Bang, Anne K., Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925, London: Routledge, 2004.

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