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Poetry

Poems published as their authors wrote them, with a verse-by-verse translation and an introduction to the people they honour.

Abd al-Baqi al-Mahmoud Muhammad عبد الباقي المحمود محمد

Abd al-Baqi al-Mahmoud Muhammad writes in classical Arabic, in the metres of Arabic prosody. He studied in the literature department of the Faculty of Arabic Language and Human Sciences at the Islamic University in Niger, in Say.

The four elegies gathered here, written between 2016 and 2024, mourn two of his uncles, an imam assassinated in northern Mali and a sheikh respected by his people. Each is given in Arabic, as the poet wrote it, with a verse-by-verse translation.