Sufi poetry in Somali : its themes and imagery
Somalia has been a Muslim country probably for over a thousand years and has a well developed Sufi movement which plays an important social role and has been a stimulus to creativity in the field of poetry composed both in Arabic and in Somali. Somali Sufis have always regarded Arabic, the sacred la...
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SOAS, University of London
1977
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