Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba: Selected Poems: Edited by Sana Camara, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes

ISBN-13: 9789004339187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Sana Camara

Opis

While in exile in Gabon (1895 1902), Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba marked a historic moment with his poetry of resilience, pivotal to the cultural and religious transformation of the Mur ds of Senegal. The qas id (poems) included in this annotated edition, most of them hymns of praise to the qualities of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, and professions of faith that demonstrate how to realize the precepts found in the Qur an, display the underlying elements of Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba s imaginative energy and poetic vision. They reveal a unifying poetic purpose and exemplify S f literary traditions in subject matter, form, and versification and aim to explore the deepest regions of mysticism in search of the divine truth."