The Presence of Poetry, the Poetry of Presence
The composition and performance of Arabic Sufi poetry is the most characteristic artistic tradition of West African Sufi communities, and yet this tradition has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In this article, I sketch an outline of a theory of Sufi poetics, and then apply this t...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of Sufi studies
Année: 2016, Volume: 5, Numéro: 1, Pages: 58-97 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
contemporary Sufism
Ibrahim Niasse
literary theory
Sufism in Africa
Sufi poetry
Tijāniyya
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| Résumé: | The composition and performance of Arabic Sufi poetry is the most characteristic artistic tradition of West African Sufi communities, and yet this tradition has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In this article, I sketch an outline of a theory of Sufi poetics, and then apply this theory to interpret a performance of a popular Arabic poem of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975), founder of the most popular branch of the Tijāniyya in West Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 2210-5956 |
| Contient: | In: Journal of Sufi studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341283 |