Research Article
Translation and Analysis of Shaykh Ibrāhīm al - Nufawī al - Qādirī (1918 -1982)’s Elegy on Shaykh Aḥmad Rufai Inda Salātī (1895-1966)
Daud Abdul-Azeez Oniyide*
,
Salman Alade Yunus
Issue:
Volume 14, Issue 2, April 2026
Pages:
15-24
Received:
18 February 2026
Accepted:
9 March 2026
Published:
30 March 2026
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20261402.11
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Abstract: Elegy is one of the earliest popular lyric poem in all cultures that traditionally focused on themes of death, loss, pain and sorrow, following the death of a beloved individual in the society or forfeit of valuable items. It is also considered the most significant and sincere form of poetry due to its emotional intensity, genuineness of experience, and precise depiction. From pre-Islamic times, elegy has occupied a significant position in Arabic literature in its homeland, and in Sudanic Africa, especially among the Yoruba (Southwest Nigeria) since the introduction of Arabic culture into the region. This essay is a translation and analysis of an elegy by Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Nufawī on Shaykh Aḥmad al-Rufai (1895-1966) popularly called Alufa Inda-Salātī. The descriptive analytical method is employed to give a background to the poet and the subject of the elegy, translate the piece, and conduct a fairly detailed examination of its form and content, in the context of the conventional literary devices employed by the author in representing actions, feelings, thoughts and ideas, to enrich the readers’ knowledge of the significance of elegy genre in this part of West Africa.
Abstract: Elegy is one of the earliest popular lyric poem in all cultures that traditionally focused on themes of death, loss, pain and sorrow, following the death of a beloved individual in the society or forfeit of valuable items. It is also considered the most significant and sincere form of poetry due to its emotional intensity, genuineness of experience...
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Research Article
Fiction Entities as Ersatzes on the Edge of Picture Theory
Ali Oublal*,
Houban Brahim
Issue:
Volume 14, Issue 2, April 2026
Pages:
25-42
Received:
21 August 2025
Accepted:
8 September 2025
Published:
2 April 2026
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20261402.12
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Abstract: Analytic philosophers, whose concern has been the core areas of philosophy, logic, ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of language, have merely contributed to literary studies by providing their theories with examples drawn from literature. The growing interest in literature in the analytic tradition has often transposed their engagement with the questions about language and its related extents such as meaning, truth, and reference. Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, has explored the reference to fiction names, which is the point of departure of such an attempt. That said, this unassuming paper seeks to unearth the bearings of Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s Trcacturain’s conception of language on literary criticism. Thereby, this article takes the tack towards the context principle Wittgenstein endorsed from Frege as the intersection thesis between picture theory and critical construal of fiction entities. With this premise, the researchers probe the analogy between the aesthetic and the philosophical logical by spilling the beams on the dialogue between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and the ontology of fiction entities. The detailed pictorial analysis of statements of fiction, extracted from the novel the Sympathiser authored by Viet Thanh Nguyen, culminated in Wittgenstein’s picture theory as an apposite lens of construing literary works. The paper's inclusive outcomes are amalgamated in the fact that the sub-conceptions of Wittgenstein ‘picture theory do not fail to either silence the opponents of picture theory’s felicitousness to interpreting literary works or marginalise the aesthetic and cognitive value of literature.
Abstract: Analytic philosophers, whose concern has been the core areas of philosophy, logic, ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of language, have merely contributed to literary studies by providing their theories with examples drawn from literature. The growing interest in literature in the analytic tradition has often transposed their engagement with th...
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