عنوان

A structural-functional analysis of the poetics of Arabic Qasīd: An ethnolinguistic study of three Qasīdahs on colonial conquest of Africa by Al-hājj 'Umar b. Abī Bakr b. 'Uthmān Krachi (1858-1934)

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TL48170

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Title Proper

A structural-functional analysis of the poetics of Arabic Qasīd: An ethnolinguistic study of three Qasīdahs on colonial conquest of Africa by Al-hājj 'Umar b. Abī Bakr b. 'Uthmān Krachi (1858-1934)

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First Statement of Responsibility

Muhammed Al-Munir Gibrill

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Al-Ani, Salman H.; Hanson, John H.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

395

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Committee members: Julien, Eileen; Losensky, Paul E.

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-65556-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

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This study examines three poems composed by a West African Muslim scholar known by the name Alhājj 'Umar b. Abī Bakr b. ''Uthmān Krachi (1858-1934). He was born in the Northern Nigerian city of Kano where he completed his education. He then settled in the mid-Volta region of present-day Ghana to teach, write and serve as community leader. This moment coincided with intensive colonial invasions into the region and Alhājj 'Umar viewed it all with mixed feelings of presentiment and hope. Within a period of seven years, he composed the three poems which came to be known as his 'colonial poems' to give account of the historical clashes between the European forces and Africans that culminated into the official establishment of colonial administration across the region. The first two poems were composed in Arabic in 1899 and 1900 respectively, while the last one was composed in 1907 in Hausa Ajami (the native language of the poet).

Middle Eastern literature; Literature; Hausa; Poetics; Poetry; Arabic language; Ethnolinguistics

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Africa;Colonialism;Ethnolinguistics;Poetics;Qasidah;Structural-functional

Malko, Helen O.

Al-Ani, Salman H.; Hanson, John H.

Subdivision

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Indiana University

Call Number

1671784061; 3687682

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276903

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