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Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba: Selected Poems
Edited by Sana Camara, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes
Series: - Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies, Volume: 2
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While in exile in Gabon (1895â1902), Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba marked a historic moment with his poetry of resilience, pivotal to the cultural and religious transformation of the MurÄ«ds of Senegal. The qaá¹£Äʾid (poems) included in this annotated edition, most of them hymns of praise to the qualities of AllÄh and the Prophet Muḥammad, and professions of faith that demonstrate how to realize the precepts found in the QurâÄn, display the underlying elements of Sheikh Ahmadu Bambaâs imaginative energy and poetic vision. They reveal a unifying poetic purpose and exemplify ṢūfÄ« literary traditions in subject matter, form, and versification and aim to explore the deepest regions of mysticism in search of the divine truth.
Sana Camara, Ph.D. (2001), Ohio State University, is Professor of French at Truman State University. His publications include Wolof Lexicon and Grammar(2006), Sëriñ Muusaa Ka: Melokaani Roytéef (2008), The Epic of Kelefaa Saane (2010), and La poésie sénégalaise dâexpression française (2011).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Orthography
Maps
Introduction
Poems
1. As-sindīdi
2. Sabhun Taqī
3. NafÄhani
4. Wajjahtu
5. AsÄ«ru Mahaʾl-AbrÄri
6. JÄwartu LÄha Bi KitÄbihi IlÄ DuqÅ«liya JannatahÅ«
7. MawÄhibu NÄfihÄ« FÄ« MadÄ Ihi ShÄfihÄ«
8. Tuhfatuʾl-Mutadarihīna
9. Mathlabuʾl-ShifÄʾi
Commentary and Notes
Appendices
Glossary of Foreign Terms
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Preface
Note on Orthography
Maps
Introduction
Poems
1. As-sindīdi
2. Sabhun Taqī
3. NafÄhani
4. Wajjahtu
5. AsÄ«ru Mahaʾl-AbrÄri
6. JÄwartu LÄha Bi KitÄbihi IlÄ DuqÅ«liya JannatahÅ«
7. MawÄhibu NÄfihÄ« FÄ« MadÄ Ihi ShÄfihÄ«
8. Tuhfatuʾl-Mutadarihīna
9. Mathlabuʾl-ShifÄʾi
Commentary and Notes
Appendices
Glossary of Foreign Terms
Bibliography
This work is a significant addition to the corpus of African Sūfī poetry and relevant to scholars and students of African literature, philosophy, linguistics, theology, sociology, and multi-cultural studies.