The Translator of Desires
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Michael Sells (translation)
Paperback, 368 pages
9780691181349
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Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation.
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The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn āArabi (1165ā1240 CE). In this authoritative volume, Michael Sells presents the first complete English translation of this work in more than a century, complete with an introduction, commentary, and a new facing-page critical text of the original Arabic. While grounded in an expert command of the Arabic, this verse translation renders the poems into a natural, contemporary English that captures the stunning beauty and power of Ibn āArabiās poems.
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Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Michael Sells (translation)
Paperback, 368 pages
9780691181349
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Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation.
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The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn āArabi (1165ā1240 CE). In this authoritative volume, Michael Sells presents the first complete English translation of this work in more than a century, complete with an introduction, commentary, and a new facing-page critical text of the original Arabic. While grounded in an expert command of the Arabic, this verse translation renders the poems into a natural, contemporary English that captures the stunning beauty and power of Ibn āArabiās poems.
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Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
Michael Sells (translation)
Paperback, 368 pages
9780691181349
Ā
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation.
Ā
The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn āArabi (1165ā1240 CE). In this authoritative volume, Michael Sells presents the first complete English translation of this work in more than a century, complete with an introduction, commentary, and a new facing-page critical text of the original Arabic. While grounded in an expert command of the Arabic, this verse translation renders the poems into a natural, contemporary English that captures the stunning beauty and power of Ibn āArabiās poems.
