المعتقدات السودانية في الشعر السوداني

Abstract

In any community, beliefs are formed according to ideological, historical, political, intellectual, social and environmental changes. Hence, the research aims at unmasking the role of these changes in forming beliefs in the Sudan and, thereof, showing the way they are reflected in Sudanese poetry. Accordingly, the problem of the research consists inherently in the following question: to what extent could the Sudanese poets highlight Suda- nese beliefs in their own poetry? In this context, a group of Sudanese poets have highlighted the images of those Sudanese beliefs which are distinguished from the beliefs of other countries. In this regard, the Sudanese poets are obviously strongly affected by the call of the late Sudanese critic, Hamza al-Malik Ṭambal (in early twentieth century), in which he called on the Sudanese poets to emancipate themselves from imitating the classic mode of old and contemporary Arab poetry. To Ṭambal, this style of the classic Arab verse has negatively impacted the Sudanese poem, the result of which is the lack of the distinctive character of the Sudanese poetry. Of the most important outcomes concluded by the researcher is that the Sudanese poets, in their portrayal of the Sudanese beliefs in their poetries, have been flagrantly been affected by the call of the Sudanese critic, Ṭambal. Therefore, the Sufi idiosyncrasy has predominantly prevailed over these images as a result of the overriding Sufi current over the Sudanese community. Likewise, before penetration of Islam into the Sudan, the indigenous Sudanese beliefs had had a clear role in forming those images, notwithstanding the incompatibility of the images to the Islamic faith. Moreover, the Sudanese social variation had its own obvious role in forming the images of those beliefs, particularly predilection for rapture and music rhythm. Also, of the ensuing outcomes, those icons came to be as closely resembling folkloric pictures