al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir

Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir was born in 1912 in Omdurman, into a Sufi family of the Kitayyab, and was given the name of the founder of the Tijaniyya order. A pupil at his uncle's Quranic school, then at the religious institute of his city, he was expelled from it for comparing the poetry of Ahmed Shawqi to the Quran. Employed at a petrol station, then a journalist, he wrote for several Omdurman magazines, but the colonial authorities prevented him from going to study in Cairo. He lived in poverty and died in 1937, aged twenty-five.

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• Poetryإشراقةal-Tijani Yusuf Bashir · 1946not translated into EnglishLiterature