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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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2016
In: Journal of Sufi studies
Jahr: 2016, Band: 5, Heft: 1, Seiten: 58-97
weitere Schlagwörter:B contemporary Sufism Ibrahim Niasse literary theory Sufism in Africa Sufi poetry Tijāniyya
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Zusammenfassung: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
Enthält:In: Journal of Sufi studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341283