Translator of Desires Poems

"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"--

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

"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"--

Testo aggiuntivo

"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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn ''Arabi, Ibn 'Arabi Muhyiddin
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sells (Traduzione), Sells Michael (Traduzione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2021
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Lirica
• EAN: 9780691181332
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18133-2
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Categorie: Islam, Literature, Rainer Maria Rilke, Narration, biography, Poetry, Muslim, Poet, Hadith, Writing, Narrative, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Middle Eastern, Bedouin, Arabic, Theology, Hafez, Hermes Trismegistus, Al-Andalus, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ramon Llull, Poetry by individual poets, Manuscript, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Literary theory, Coleman Barks, Adrienne Rich, Prose, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: poetry and poets, Transliteration, Allusion, Quran, full moon, Ibn Taymiyyah, Arabs, Rite, Stanza, eyelid, potion, Generosity, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Arabic Poetry, Sunni Islam, English poetry, righteousness, Classical Arabic, ghazal, proofreading, islamic culture, The Various, S. (Dorst novel), Edition (book), holograph, Poetic tradition, Contrition, David Hinton, Preface (liturgy), cloister, Rebuke, John of the Cross, Iskandar, Satires (Juvenal), Sandgrouse, Geoffrey Hartman, The Shadow of Death, Northrop Frye, Mary, mother of Jesus, Ibn Jubayr, Ghalib, Peter Cole, Stress (linguistics), Selected Poems (C. A. Smith), Michael Sells, Karl Kirchwey, Najd