Translator of Desires (eBook)

Poems

Muhyiddin Ibn ?Arabi (Autor)

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2021
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21254-8 (ISBN)

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A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. 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 'Arabi's poems in such lines as "e;A veiled gazelle's / an amazing sight, / her henna hinting, / eyelids signalling // A pasture between / breastbone and spine / Marvel, a garden / among the flames!"e;The introduction puts the poems in the context of the Arabic love poetry tradition, Ibn 'Arabi's life and times, his mystical thought, and his "e;romance"e; with Nizam, the young woman whom he presents as the inspiration for the volume-a relationship that has long fascinated readers. Other features, following the main text, include detailed notes and commentaries on each poem, translations of Ibn 'Arabi's important prefaces to the poems, a discussion of the sources used for the Arabic text, and a glossary.Bringing The Translator of Desires to life for contemporary English readers as never before, this promises to be the definitive volume of these fascinating and compelling poems for years to come.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Übersetzer: MIchael Sells
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adrienne Rich • Al-Andalus • Allusion • arabic • Arabic Poetry • Arabic poetry in English • Arabic prosody • arabs • Bedouin • Bernard McGinn (theologian) • Bezels of Wisdom • Biography • Cairo • Charles Simic • christian mysticism • Classic • classical arabic • classics of Arabic literature • Cloister • coleman barks • Contrition • cyrus the great • david hinton • Edition (book) • Edmund Keeley • Eloquence • english poetry • Epithet • eyelid • Fez • Firmament • Full Moon • Generosity • Geoffrey Hartman • ghalib • Ghazal • Gog and Magog • Greatest Master • great works of Arabic poetry • Hadith • Hafez • Hermes Trismegistus • holograph • Howdah • Ibn al Arabi • Ibn Jubayr • Ibn Taymiyyah • Image of God • Iraq • Iskandar • Islam • Islamic culture • John of the Cross • Julian of Norwich • KABA • Karl Kirchwey • Literary Theory • Literature • Long poem • Manuscript • Mark Strand • Mary, mother of Jesus • mecca • Meccan Openings • Medieval • metafiction • Michael Sells • Muslim • Muslim world • Mystic • Mysticism • najd • Narration • narrative • Northrop Frye • Paul Verlaine • Peter Cole • Philip Sherrard • Poet • Poetic tradition • Poetry • potion • Preface (liturgy) • printing • proofreading • Prose • Quotation mark • Quran • rabbinic literature • Rainer Maria Rilke • Ramon Llull • rebuke • Religion • Reynolds Nicholson • Righteousness • Rite • Robert Bly • Robert Pinsky • Sandgrouse • Satires (Juvenal) • Scansion • S. (Dorst novel) • Selected Poems (C. A. Smith) • Semiotics • Sessions of the Righteous • Shaykh al Akbar • Solomon Ibn Gabirol • Spain • Spanish • stanza • Stress (linguistics) • Sufi • Sufism • Sunni Islam • Tarjuman al Ashwaq • Theology • The Other Hand • The Shadow of Death • The Various • Transliteration • Verse • World literature • Writing • writing system • W. S. Merwin
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21254-6 / 0691212546
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21254-8 / 9780691212548