Sufi Poetry in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
This article presents the translation and analysis of two poems (the first in Arabic, the second in Hausa) authored by one of the most famous twentieth-century Islamic scholars and Tijānī Sufis of Kano (Nigeria), Abū Bakr al-ʿAtīq b. Khiḍr (1909–74). As examples of two genres of Sufi poetry that are...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-232 |
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Arabic Poetry
Hausa poetry
Nigeria
qaṣīda
Sufi poetry
Sufism in West Africa
Tijāniyya
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