Poetic Imagery in the Eulogies of Sheikh Muhammad al-Nasir Kibr: The Diwan of Tar Melodies as a Model

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Panegyry is one of the developed and studied poetic genres in Nigerian Arabic literature. It is often explored by Nigerian poets to eulogise individuals or people with distinctive virtues. Sheikh Muhammadun-Naasir Kabara is known by his standard poems in different poetic genres especially in panegry through his numerous poetic write-ups and published collection of poems. However، his panegyric poems were furnished with imagery phenomena which were freely explored in some verses of the poems to illustrate thoughts and elucidate meanings; this gained the attention of the researchers to conduct this study. The objectives of the study were to identify the iconicity which were established and analyse the figurative features explored in the purposively selected verses of panegyric poems of the noble prophet and some sufi scholars in his collection of poems porpularly known as Naghamatu-Taar. The methods adopted for the study were historical and descriptive while findings and conclusion were made at the end of this paper.