The composition and performance of Arabic Sufi poetry is the most characteristic artistic tradition of West African Sufi communities, and yet this tradition has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In this article, I sketch an outline of a theory of Sufi poetics, and then apply this theory to interpret a performance of a popular Arabic poem of the Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975), founder of the most popular branch of the Tijāniyya in West Africa.

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诗歌的存在，存在的诗歌：当代达喀尔对阿拉伯苏菲诗歌表现和仪式的沉思

阿拉伯苏菲派诗歌的构成和表演是西非苏菲派社区最典型的艺术传统，但这种传统尚未得到应有的学术关注。在本文中，我概述了苏菲诗学理论的大纲，然后将其应用到塞纳加尔人谢赫·易卜拉欣·尼阿斯（卒于1975年）的流行阿拉伯诗歌的表演中，塞贾加尔·谢赫·易卜拉欣·尼亚斯（Tijāniyya）最受欢迎的创始人在西非。