Prof. Dr. Amidu Sanni

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsIslamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsArabic literary theory

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityLagos
InstitutionLagos State University
InstituteDepartment of Foreign Languages

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Angelika HartmannInstitut für Orientalistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen
Prof. Dr. Ewald WagnerInstitut für Orientalistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen
Prof. Dr. Tilman NagelSeminar für Arabistik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/1994

Programme(s)

1993Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2002Amidu Sanni: Al-Marzubani: the Cinderella of Classical Arabic Poetics. In: Journal of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic, 2002, 1-27
2002Amidu Sanni: Observation and Documentation: the First Chapter in Arabic Literary Theory. In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Stuedies, 2002, 1-11
2001Amidu Sanni: Did Tarafa actually steal from Imru5 I-Qays?: on Coincidence of Wypressions and Thoughts (tawarud). In: Arabic Literary Theory, Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 2001, 117-136
2000Amidu Sanni, Stefan Reichmuth: Islamische Bildung und soziale Integration in Ilorin (Nigeria) seit ca. 1800. In: Journal of African History, 2000, 316-318
2000Amidu Sanni: The Arabic Theory of Originality and Imitation in a New Light. In: Asiatische Studien - Journal of the Swiss Asiatic Society Bern-Switzerland, 2000, 591-608
1999Amidu Sanni: A Recomposition: an Aspect of Arabic Literary Theory. In: Islamic Culture, 1999, 105-120
1999Amidu Sanni: At the Threshold of Paradise and Hell. a Tenth-Century Verse Narrative on Resurrection from Qayrawan. In: Journal of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic, 1999, 1-22
1999Amidu Sanni: The Authority of Tradition and the Tradition of Authority: Originality and Imitation in Arabic and Early Classical Theoretical Discourse. In: Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 1999, 19-51
1998Amidu Sanni: Again on Tadmin in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. In: Bulletin SOAS, 1998, 1-19
1997Amidu Sanni: A bridhe Across Two Disciplines: An Aspect of Einstein's Orientation in Arabic Literary Theory. In: Journal of Research, 1997, 81-99