Ibrahim 'Ali Salman

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Ibrahim 'Ali Salman (‎إبراهيم علي سلمان‎) (died March 30, 1995) is the most famous contemporary poet of the Arab Manasir who inhabit the area of the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Northern Sudan. He is referred to by the Manasir simply as "Ibrahim the poet" (‎إبراهيم الشائر‎).

Ibrahim 'Ali Salman was born in 1937 as the youngest son of his father "The poet 'Ali" (al-Sha'ir 'Ali, ‎الشائر علي‎). The poetry about his homeland Dar al-Manasir and the ongoing issue of the relocation of his tribe as a result of the Hamdab High Dam project is written in the Colloquial Arab language of the Manasir.

The poems of Ibrahim al-Sha'ir had been collected and compiled by his former student al-Nadhir Tag al-Sirr al-Bashir (‎النذير تاج السر البشير‎). The compilation comprises his life's work and is called "The Genius Diwan of the Manasir" (‎ديوان عبقرية المناصير). It probably is the only literary document from within Dar al-Manasir.

[edit] Wikipedian preservation efforts

In a joint effort between the German geographer and Wikipedia editor David Haberlah, the Sudanese Prof. Dr. Khidir A. Ahmed from the University of Neelein, Faculty of Arts (Dep. of History) and the Manasir editor al-Nadhir Tag al-Sirr al-Bashir the single remaining hard copy has been digitalized and partly translated into English.

[edit] External links

• The Diwan of the Manasir and further biographical information on Ibrahim al-Sha'ir on Wikisource.
• The Arabic source material is also available as a *.pdf-document: Diwan 'Abqariah al-Manasir. Li-Ustadh Ibrahim 'Ali al-Sha'ir