Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Note on transcription of Somali words
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Prose
- 2 Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Poetry
- 3 Occupation and resistance: The rise of the Somali Dervishes
- 4 Poetic oratory and the Dervish movement
- 5 Myth and the Mullah
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Note on transcription of Somali words
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Prose
- 2 Elements of Somali pastoral oratory: Poetry
- 3 Occupation and resistance: The rise of the Somali Dervishes
- 4 Poetic oratory and the Dervish movement
- 5 Myth and the Mullah
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Oral Poetry and Somali NationalismThe Case of Sayid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan, pp. 203 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982