Of Patience and Pity: Rewriting and Reciting the Widely Travelled Islamic Poem “The Hawk and the Dove” in East Africa
“The Hawk and the Dove” has been a travelling Islamic poem par excellence: like many other popular Swahili Islamic poems dating back to the eighteenth, but mostly the nineteenth century – the heyday of Swahili Islamic poetry, having flourished amid the Sufi movements and their emphasis on poetry in...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-41 |
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Asia-Africa connections
B manuscript culture B Swahili literature B travelling text |
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