Hausa Islamic verse : its sources and development prior to 1920

The thesis has four main divisions. Part I describes the religious, cultural and political background against which Hausa Islamic verse arose and proposes certain reasons for its emergence as an important literary genre at the beginning of the period studied - that is from c.1775 to 1920. Part I dem...

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Main Author: Hiskett, M.
Published: SOAS, University of London 1969
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.510079