Oral poetry and Somali nationalism the case of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan
This book explores the influence of oral poetry on Somali politics. By reconstructing the history of the Somali nationalist resistance movement, mainly through the use of political oratory in verse form by its leader, Sayyid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan', the 'Mad Mullah' of British h...
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Cambridge University Press
1982
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| Schriftenreihe: | African studies
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part 1. Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Prose
- 1. The cultural milieu
- 2. The camel: Mother of men
- 3. The role of the pony in camel raiding
- 4. Formal speeches and the godob institution of cumulative grievances
- 5. Oratory and formal assemblies
- 6. Oratory and conflict resolution: The Daaqato-Beerato feud of 1962-3
- 7. Analysis
- Part 2. Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Poetry
- 1. Message
- 2. Alliteration
- 3. Poetic eloquence
- 4. Meter
- 5. Composition, transmission and dissemination
- 6. Diatribe, provocation and curse in Somali classical verse
- 7. Techniques of persuasion in Somali traditional verse
- Part 3. Occupation and resistance: The rise of the Somali Dervishes
- 1. The emergence of militant brotherhood
- 2. The making of an African resister: Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan
- 3. The flight to the Ogaadeen
- 4. The inconclusive expeditions (1901-4)
- 5. The Tree-of-Bad-Counsel revolt
- 6. Taleeḥ and after (1910-20)
- Part 4. Poetic oratory and the Dervish movement
- 1. Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan: The political orator
- 2. Characteristics of the Sayyid's oral verse
- 3. The composer of oral epistles
- 4. The singer of polemics: Diatribe, curse and exhortation
- 5. Poetry as a tool in the long struggle
- Part 5. Myth and the Mullah
- 1. The changing images of the Mullah
- 2. The master polemicist
- 3. The mystic warrior
- 4. Sayyid Maḥammad's legacy: An appraisal