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- catalog abstract ""This is a study of the use of oratory and oratorical techniques as a tool to obtain political power in a traditional African society ... [with] focus on the political oratory of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan, the poet, mystic and warrior leader of the Somali anti-colonial movement at the turn of the century"--p. ix.".
- catalog contributor b1234982.
- catalog created "1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1982.".
- catalog description ""This is a study of the use of oratory and oratorical techniques as a tool to obtain political power in a traditional African society ... [with] focus on the political oratory of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan, the poet, mystic and warrior leader of the Somali anti-colonial movement at the turn of the century"--p. ix.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 224-228.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 232 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521238331".
- catalog isPartOf "African studies series ; 32".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Somalia.".
- catalog subject "Folk literature, Somali History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan' Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920.".
- catalog subject "Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan's Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920.".
- catalog subject "Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920.".
- catalog subject "Oratory.".
- catalog subject "PJ2534.M39 Z87 1982".
- catalog subject "Political oratory Somalia.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionary poetry, Somali History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Oral poetry and Somali nationalism : the case of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan / Said S. Samatar.".
- catalog type "Hasan, Sayyid M. swd".
- catalog type "text".