A selection of books on poetry at Tarbiyah Books Plus, the leading Islamic Bookshop in Abuja, Nigeria
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How to View the World from a Glass Prism By Salihu Mahe
₦2,000How to View the World from a Glass Prism By Salihu Mahe is a collection of poems that serve as a guide to life.
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The Dove’s Neck-Ring or The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Hazm
₦4,000(“The Ring of the Dove” or “Dove’s Neck Ring”). Its lucid prose, interspersed with poetry, has many times been translated into Western languages.
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What She Feels by Chidozie Osuwa
₦6,000This is not just another poetry book What She Feels by Chidozie Osuwa filled with cliché quotes. What this is is every emotion a woman has ever felt when dealing with love, but could never put into words. This is looking at yourself in the mirror.
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Breaking The Shackles of The Mind By Osondu Chilagor
₦1,500This book eloquently talks about all roses of our society trampled on the ground by forces of oppression and injustice. It also celebrates the martyrs who paid the ultimate price for democracy to thrive.
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Night Fall In Zakibiam By Osondu Chilagor
₦2,000In Nightfall in Zakibiam, the author is as incisive as ever. He reminices with pain the ugly invasion and massacre of innocent Nigerian men, women and children in Zakibiam, Benue state.
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The Voyage to Naka By Osondu Chilagor
₦2,000The Voyage to Naka is a book that celebrates the Tiv people of the middle belt of Nigeria; for truly holding us together with this sumptuous food basket and protecting us froom shame; or your political travials; the battle to keep the bond of unity in the face of internal colonialism, for being the unexplored economic mindfield of the nation, for being dogged defenders of the soul and dignity of man in the face of excrutiatiating lack.
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Two Nigerians By Osondu Chilagor
₦2,000Two Nigerians, Osondu’s sixth published work. is a resourceful ensemble of poems of diverse theme. This book is the portrait of a society that sails in the turbulent seas of corruption and mismanagement without a compass or the competent stewardship of its captain. It reveals the absurdity of religious conflicts that are undermining our cultural pluralism which is supposed to be an asset.
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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
₦3,000The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death
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Lights of Yearning: In Praise of the Most Praised
₦3,000A forty-piece collection of poetry & prose authored by Walid Lounès Bouzerar in praise of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad, choicest peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Foreword by H.E. Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi.-“In our time,” one poet has exclaimed, “it is impossible to write religious poems!” Walid Lounès Bouzerar has proved the error of this comment. He has written a book of remarkable devotional poems in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of Prophets (peace and blessings be upon him).
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The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems Paperback – Unabridged,
₦2,000The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran’s best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner, published just 3 years earlier. Heartfelt and compassionate, it is a memorable, internationally acclaimed collection of 24 morality tales dealing with universal human concerns. Five black-and-white illustrations by the author.
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Poems for Life by Anna Quindlen
₦5,600Poems for Life by Anna Quindlen is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by famous people and handed down from one generation to the next.
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The Story of the Reed by Osman Nuri Topbaş
₦1,000Get this book at the best bookshop in Abuja. Order now!