SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

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NOTES

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1. See Andrzejewski 1970, pp. 25-29, Cerulli 1964,
   pp. 2-5, and Lewis 1958, pp. 144-4.5.
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.1. For a bibliography of Somali Sufi poetry written in

Arabic see Andrzejewski 1974a and Johnson 1969.

. 2. For a brief biography of this shaikh see Andrzejewski
1970, P p. 22-i4.
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1. Since the art of typing in Somali is a recent innovation

Sheekh Caaqib's texts sometimes needed obvious minor

emendations and deletions. Such changes, which I

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have kept to the minimum, have little bearing on the

integrity of the original texts. Scholars wishing

to examine these changes can do so by reference to

Sheekh Caaqib's collection in LjSOAS.

.1. I learnt this oral text by heart as a member of a Sufi

congregation in Somalia.

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.1. See Gibb et al. 1960.

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.1. In all the quotations from published works the trans-

cription of Somali has been adjusted to the conventions

of the National Orthography introduced in 1972.

Transliteration of Arabic has also been adjusted to

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1.

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the system used in this thesis.

The second vowel in ALLAH when it is written in the

Arabic script is either represented by a diacritic or

not represented at all. Thus in the Arabic script in

the "'ford ALLAH there are only four letters.

1. See Burckhardt 1959, pp.57-6j.


2. See SHAIKH AL-cARABI AD-DARQAWY 1969,p.i9.

3. For the na~es of God in Somali see Lewis 195~.

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