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- ItemEVOLUTION OF ARABIC PROSE AMONG NIGERIAN YORUBA AUTHORS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEMATIC TRANSFORMATION(2015-01-25) Yunusa Jamiu MuhammadProse which is a symbol of societal life does not enjoy rapid growth poetry enjoys in any literature. The reason is not far-fetched as poetry is more natural because of its lyrical nature which is more individualistic. Literary prose, in contrast to poetry, is rendered in a controlled manner that requires ripe thinking which displays maturity relying on logical reasoning presented in a captivating narrative style. Like in many other societies, literary Arabic prose evolved among the Yorubas in Nigeria in the shade of Islamic religion; this resulted in a very long gestation period before indigenous scholars of Arabic come to terms with the reality that prosaic expression is as important and relevant as poetic exercise. This paper aims at studying the thematic transformation of Arabic prose among the Yorubas in Nigeria. To do this, the paper is divided into: introduction, early themes of Arabic prose, transformation from religious to social themes, analytical studies of social themes, critique of selected samples, and conclusion.
- Item�دب العر�ي والبيئة �� شمال نيج��يا: دراسة وتحليل(2023-12) Jamiu Muhammad YunusaLiterature is a creative work that depicts, in its contents, all that is available in the environment. An incontrovertible fact is the say that the environment has appreciable impacts on literary works. The fact that ecocriticism is a relatively new concept does not mean it is totally strange to Islamic literary studies. Based on this, it will not be out of place to look into Arabic literary works of Northern Nigeria authorship from the lens of ecocriticism given the strength and length of Islam and Arabic literature in the region. Arabic language is the first language of reading and writing in Nigeria as a whole with stronger presence in the North because civilization in the region, to a large extent, is basically Islamic. It is therefore very relevant to look into literary works of the region with a view to studying the ecological features in them. This paper therefore sets out to look into how the literary works in Arabic from the region accord the environment necessary importance. The Qur’an and Sunnah that are principal foundations of Arabic studies are the necessary pillars guiding the study. This study discovered that: ecostudy is not alien to scholars in Arabic in Northern Nigeria; the importance of ecological balance for the maintenance of friendly nature is well established in Islam; creative writers in Arabic in Northern Nigeria, past and present, accord sustaining friendly climate for the benefit of all importance in their works. The study recommended that there is need for expansion in the attention given to ecological issues in Arabic literary works of Northern Nigeria authorship.
- ItemContemporary Arabic Novelists and Social Responsibility: a Peep into AlHijri’s Al-Sayyid Al-Raees(2014-03) Jamiu Muhammad YunusaNovel writing in Arabic language is a contemporary effort in Arabic literature of Nigerian authorship. This, however, is not strange because of the fact that the genre in global Arabic literature is equally not very old. It is however note worthy how writers use Arabic in purely literary ways to convey social messages. Novel writing, most especially, is being explored to champion the discharge of the responsibility thrust on writers as shapers of the society. One of such writers is an upcoming novelist, Hamid al-Hijri. This paper aims at analyzing the positive roles modern writers in Arabic play to socialize their readers and bring them to the realm of wider awareness devoid of religious jingoism, using Al-Sayyid Al-Raees as a case study.
- ItemThe Influence of Arabic on Nigerian Literature: a study of selected works of Abubakar Imam in Hausa(2014-11-02) Jamiu Muhammad YunusaThe heritage of a people is, without doubt, the bedrock of their identity. The sheer size of the Northern part of Nigeria makes it a very important part of the country. This vast region has been having a common identity forged by literacy in the Arabic language. For many centuries before the coming of the imperialists, Arabic provided universal understanding among people of the Northern Nigeria. It was so important that even the imperial agents studied Arabic language in order to penetrate the culture of the people of the area they wanted to colonize. When the foreign power eventually succeeded in enthroning its own language as the official language, Arabic still remains very visible not only as a religious language but also as a springboard for literary endeavors in both local and foreign languages of the North. This paper therefore intends to study the influence of Arabic on the Nigerian Literature using Magana Jari Ce and Ruwan Bagaja by the renown Hausa writer, late Alhaji Abubakar Imam, as a case study. The paper is divided into: introduction, short biography of Abubakar Imam, Arabic influence on selected stories, general analysis of the stories, conclusion and recommendation.
- ItemA LITERARY STUDY OF SOCIAL THEMES IN MAQĀMĀT AL-ILŌRĪ(2022-11) Jamiu Muhammad YunusMaqāmah is a prosimetric literary genre very popular in Arabic literature and well accepted among scholars of literature across the Islamic world. It is a genre alternating ryhmic prose (sajc) and poetry as the narrative style in its presentation. The genre had been in deep and long hibernation until very recently, especially in Nigeria; the reason for its revival could be because maqāmah is a precursor to prosaic literary writing among Muslim scholars. The genre, among Arabs, used to be for demonstration of flowery ability to express literary contents; it is often short and ornamental but replete with moral themes. The genre is well embraced among Nigerian Muslim scholars of Yoruba extraction because it suites their folkloric heritage: the Yoruba culture of telling tales by moonlight to young children before dinner makes maqāmah very adaptive to their environment. The concern of this paper is to study the sociological themes in a collection of maqāmāt written by Muhammad Awwal bin Abdus-Salaam. Literature being a social document and prism through which society could be viewed in a very crystal manner; the study chose two maqāmahs for the purpose of discussing how the writer has succeeded in making his work a true reflection of his society. One of the maqāmahs discusses a national crisis that enveloped a state in the recent past where many lives were lost in Kaduna, with hoodlums hiding under religion to perpetuate the mayhem of catastrophic consequence. The other maqāmah has as its themes guidance and advice of Muslim scholars on how to get steady and sustainable means of income instead of hinging their survival on the society all in the name of being religion scholars. The paper concludes with a critique of literary styles of the writer to appraise its conformity with standard ways of writing maqāmahs.