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Tarjumān al-Ashwāq

Interpreter of Desires () is a collection of 61 self-standing nasībs by the Andalusian Sufi mystic Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165–1240).

Editions and translations

Arabic

  • Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«, Dhakhāʾir al-AÊ¿lāq: Sharḥ. Turjumān al-Ashwāq, ed. Muḥ ammad Abd al-Raḥ mān al-KurdÄ« (Cairo, 1968) [includes both poems and Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«'s commentary].
  • Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«, Turjumān al-Ashwāq (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1966) [includes both poems and Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«'s commentary].

English

  • Sells, Michael, The Translator of Desires: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2021).
  • Sells, Michael, 'Return to the Flash Rock Plain of Thahmad: Two NasÄ«bs by Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«', Journal of Arabic Literature, 39 (2008), 3–13 (p. 4); DOI: 10.1163/157006408X310825 [translates poems 22 and 26].
  • Sells, M., ‘ “You’d Have Seen What Melts the Mind”: Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ«'s Poem #20 from the Turjumān al-Ashwāq’, in Jonathan P. Decter and Michael Rand, eds., Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin (Gorgias Press, 2007).
  • Sells, Michael, Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn al-Ê¿ArabÄ« and New Poems (Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2001) [translates 24 of the poems into English].
  • Sells, Michael, 'Ibn 'Arabi's "Gentle Now, Doves of the Thornberry and Moringa Thicket" (ālā yā hamāmāti l-arākati wa l-bāni)', The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 10 (1991), http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/poemtarjuman11.html [translates poem 11].

Romance

  • Maurice Gloton (trans.), L’Interprète des Désires, Turjumān al-Ashwāq, Traduit de l’arabe (Paris: Albin Michel, 1997) [complete French translation of both the poems and their author's commentary upon them].
  • Vincente Cantorino (trans)., Casidas de amor profano y místico: Ibn Zaydun e Ibn Ê¿Arabi (Mexico City: Porrua, 1988) [Spanish translation].
  • Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de los Deseos (TarÅ·umān al-AÅ¡wāq), trans. by Carlos Varona Narvión (Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, Colección Ibn Arabi, 2002) [Spanish translation].

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