Articles

• Editorial: Islamic Verse-Making in African Societies: Themes, Forms, Functions

  Andrea Brigaglia

  3-8

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• Praising the Prophet in Poetry: A Note on Prophetic Madīḥ in Islamic Africa

  Oludamini Ogunnaike

  9-16

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• Islamic Devotional Poetry in Ethiopia: Between Classical Arabic Tradition and Local Developments

  Michele Petrone

  17-43

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• The Poem about the Prophet’s Death in Mozambique – Swahili as a Transregional Language of Islamic Poetry

  Clarissa Vierke, Chapane Mutiua

  44-74

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• Devotional Poetry and Religious Authority: Muḥammad al-Yadālī and the Ṣalāt Rabbī maʿa al-salāmi in Praise of the Prophet Muḥammad

  Abubakar Abdulkadir

  75-101

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• Prayers Uttered Down on Paper: A Stylistic Analysis of Swahili Devotional Lyrics

  Annachiara Raia

  102-140

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• Singing the Glory of Niasse: The Joyful Music to Mock Salafis in Nigeria

  Muhammad Sani Umar

  141-165

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• Islamic Zambo: Hausa anti-Shia Songs in Kano

  Andrea Brigaglia

  166-216

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• A Political History of Uganda’s ADF, and an ADF Nashīd in Luganda

  Abdulhakim A. Nsobya, Andrea Brigaglia

  217-255

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