SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI: ITS THEMES AND IMAGERY By ABDISALAM YASSIN MOHAMED Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosoph ...

ABSTRACT Somalia has been a Muslim country probably for over a thousand years and has a well developed Sufi movement "\vhich pla ...

The aim of this thesis is first of all to contribute to the documentation of this almost unexplored field and to demonstrate the ...

CONTENTS Abstract Acknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Documentation and Sources II. Transcription I II. Translation IV. Pre ...

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PART FOUR: THE IMAGERY I. The Main Characteristic of the Imagery II. Images Drawn from the Somali Environment and Traditional Cu ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Sheekhc Caaqib Cabdilaahi who has kindly allowed me to use some ...

8. PART ONE INTRODUCTION ...

I Documentation and Sources Although the existence of Sufi oral poetry in Somali has been noticed by some scholars, the whole do ...

developed its stocks of poems, usually sung, and the two separate repertoires have never contradicted each other nor have they o ...

f Somali began to be written in Latin script, first unofficially and then as the National Orthography, Sheekh Caaqib dictated hi ...

Caaqib Cabdilaahi's poems are very popular among the Somali Sufis and his reputation, which was first limited to his native regi ...

( are given in the list belo~. The genres of the poems are identical with those of the secular poetry and information on this ...

14. Text Genre !Iuthor Date Place Publication of of or Place of Composition Composjtion Deposit 5 Jiifto Sh.Caaqib circa 1940- J ...

15. Text Genre Author Date Place Publication of 0; or Place of Composition Composition Deposit 23 Jiifto Sh.Caaqib circa 1940- J ...

either the Somali texts or the Arabic texts or in both, because there is a divergence between the Somali script and the standard ...

are also given in their Arabic forms and transliterated accordinglj. In Somali alphabetical poems, in which the letters of the A ...

1,8 • each poem line by line, but due to the vast structural differences between the two languages, I have not attempted to repr ...

not intended in the original; consequently, I have given English equivalents of such phrases, which do not depart from the meani ...

IV Presentation In my arrangement of the material presented in this thesis I have been influenced by the traditional approach am ...