ABSTRACT
The research focused on the study of mystic symbolism, as a case study.
The term mystic symbolism refers to poetic usage of indirect suggestion
to express mystical ideas, emotions and the state of mind. The work aims
at solving the ambiguity of mystic symbolism in sheikh Ibrahim
Abdullahi Kontagora's anthology;Raudul Qulub, the research comprises
five chapters: the first chapter is an introduction which contains the
topic of the dissertation, justifications, objectives, significance,
limitations, research problems, methodology and literature review, the
second is biography of sheik Ibrahim Abdullahi and the brief explanation
of what the anthology Raudul Qulub is all about and the presentation as
well as study of the content of the anthology, the third chapter
studied the poetic sources and his styles. The fourth chapter discussed
the theoretical aspect of symbolism, its linguistic and terminological
definitions as well as characteristics which distinguished the mystics
symbolism from other literary symbolism, and the fifth chapter dealt
with the mystics symbolism applied by the poetic in the anthology as
their categories were analytically studied. And the research concluded
with the summary, the most important results arrived at, as well as
suggestion for further studies.