Idris Ajani Oni

Shaykh Ādam al-‘Ilūrī's Poem on Western-oriented Politics (Al-Siyāsah al-Gharbiyyah) as a Literary Diagnosis of the Nigerian Political Situation

This article examines a short Arabic poem on politics by Shaykh Ādam ‘Abdullāhi al-Ilūrī (1917–1992) as a literary response to the moral disorder of public power. Although its precise date of composition remains unknown, the poem survives in the fourth edition of al-Tuḥfah al-Rizqiyyah, compiled by his son and publishe...