SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

CONTENTS

Abstract
Acknowledgments

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Documentation and Sources
   II. Transcription
   I II. Translation

IV. Presentation

PART TWO: CULTURAL SETTING

I. The Sufi Way

II. The Sufi Orders in Somalia

I II. The Impact of Sufism on Somali

Secular Poetry

IY. The pre-Islamic Elements in Sufi

poetry in Somali

v. The Sufi Poetry in Arabic Written

by Somalis

VI. The Sufi Poetry in Somali Composed

by Men

VII. The Sufi Poetry in Somali Composed

by Women

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VIII. Formal Characteristics of Sufi Poetry in Somali 58

PART THREE: THEMES OF SUFI POETRY IN SOrvlALI

WITH REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLES

.I. Poems Concerning God

Text 1. ADAM and IjAwi\.J

Text 2. Thanksgiving

Text 3. God, the Majestic One

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