in Singapore
in Singapore
The Book of Clouds is a collection of English language ghazals, qasidas, and short poems that strives to bring the sound and feeling of traditional Sufi poetry into English verse. In this author talk, Oludamini Ogunnaike will discuss the rise of English Sufi poetry, its importance and function, and read a few poems from the collection.
Oludamini Ogunnaike is an Associate Professor of African Religious Thought at the University of Virginia specializing in the intellectual and artistic dimensions of West and North African Sufism and Yoruba oriṣa traditions. He received his PhD from the department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and his A.B. in Cognitive Neuroscience and African studies from the same institution.
He is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (Penn State University Press, 2020) winner of the ASWAD’s (Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora) Outstanding First Book Prize, Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (Islamic Texts Society, 2020), and The Book of Clouds (Fons Vitae, 2024).
IN-STORE EVENT
Date: 22 February 2025, Saturday
Time: 11.00 am Singapore Time
Venue: ONLINE Zoom only
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