The Translator of Desires (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2021-04-06
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Översättare
Michael Sells
Illustratör/Fotograf
1 b, w illus 1 map
Illustrationer
1 b/w illus. 1 map.
Dimensioner
218 x 142 x 30 mm
Vikt
522 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780691181332

The Translator of Desires

Poems

av Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
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A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (11651240 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 Arabis poems in such lines as A veiled gazelles / an amazing sight, / her henna hinting, / eyelids signalling // A pasture between / breastbone and spine / Marvel, a garden / among the flames! The introduction puts the poems in the context of the Arabic love poetry tradition, Ibn Arabis life and times, his mystical thought, and his romance with Nim, the young woman whom he presents as the inspiration for the volumea relationship that has long fascinated readers. Other features, following the main text, include detailed notes and commentaries on each poem, translations of Ibn Arabis 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.
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"Michael Sells, a highly regarded expert on the history and literature of Islam, and translator of this splendid book, provides all we might need to understand the poems in their broader historical context. . . . It is the clarity of his translations that bring these poems back for us, their marvels intact."---Allan Graubard, American Book Review

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Michael Sells is the Barrows Professor Emeritus of the History and Literature of Islam and professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many translations and studies of classical Arabic poetry.

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