The translator of desires / Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi ; translated by Michael Sells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240, author.

Contributor:

Sells, Michael Anthony, translator.

Series:

The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

The Lockert library of poetry in translation

Standardized Title:

Turjumān al-ashwāq. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Arabic--Translations into English.

Love poetry, Arabic.

Sufi poetry, Arabic--Translations into English.

Sufi poetry, Arabic.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in English and Arabic on facing pages.

Summary:

"A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Translator’s Introduction

Acknowledgments

Note on Arabic Names

The Translator of Desires

Notes to the Poems

Appendix 1: Niẓām Preface

Appendix 2: Qurrat al- ʿAyn Preface

Appendix 3: Apologia

Appendix 4: Ibn ʿArabī’s Poem on al-Zahrā

Appendix 5: Chronology of Ibn ʿArabī’s Life and Times

Appendix 6: Establishing the Text: Manuscripts, Editions, and Method

Appendix 7: Annotated Chronology of Tarjumān Translations

Glossary

Notes

The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

Notes:

Originally published in Arabic as Turjumān al-ashwāq.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691181349

0691181349

9780691212548

0691212546

OCLC:

1253313533