Of Patience and Pity: Rewriting and Reciting the Widely Travelled Islamic Poem “The Hawk and the Dove” in East Africa

“The Hawk and the Dove” has been a travelling Islamic poem par excellence: like many other popular Swahili Islamic poems dating back to the eighteenth, but mostly the nineteenth century – the heyday of Swahili Islamic poetry, having flourished amid the Sufi movements and their emphasis on poetry in...

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Main Author: Vierke, Clarissa (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Islamic Africa
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-41
Further subjects:B Asia-Africa connections
B manuscript culture
B Swahili literature
B travelling text
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