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This study examines three poems composed by a West African Muslim scholar known by the name Alh[dotbelow]ajj 'Umar b. Abi Bakr b. ''Uthman 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 reg…

The subject of this dissertation is was[dotbelow]f or "description" that is one of the salient characteristics of the qas[dotbelow]idah (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. We find something similar to was[dotbelow]f in the Western tradition under the name of ekphrasis. Original…

Anecdotes about poetry in classical Arabic works of history and literature provide a picture of the role that poetry played in this history and the degree of influence exercised by poetry in the formation of social and historical events. In this study, I aim to discover the crit…