Interpreter of Desires () is a collection of 61 self-standing nasëbs by the Andalusian Sufi mystic Muḥyë al-Dën Ibn al-ÿArabë (1165âÂÂ1240).
Editions and translations
Arabic
- Ibn al-ÿArabë, DhakhÃÂþir al-AÿlÃÂq: Sharḥ. TurjumÃÂn al-AshwÃÂq, ed. Muḥ ammad Abd al-Raḥ mÃÂn al-Kurdë (Cairo, 1968) [includes both poems and Ibn al-ÿArabë's commentary].
- Ibn al-ÿArabë, TurjumÃÂn al-AshwÃÂq (Beirut: DÃÂr á¹¢ÃÂdir, 1966) [includes both poems and Ibn al-ÿArabë'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 Nasëbs by Ibn al-ÿArabë', Journal of Arabic Literature, 39 (2008), 3âÂÂ13 (p. 4); DOI: 10.1163/157006408X310825 [translates poems 22 and 26].
- Sells, M., â âÂÂYouâÂÂd Have Seen What Melts the MindâÂÂ: Ibn al-ÿArabë's Poem #20 from the TurjumÃÂn al-AshwÃÂqâÂÂ, 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-ÿArabë 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" (ÃÂlÃÂ yÃÂ hamÃÂmÃÂti l-arÃÂkati wa l-bÃÂni)', The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 10 (1991), http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/poemtarjuman11.html [translates poem 11].
Romance
- Maurice Gloton (trans.), LâÂÂInterprète des Désires, TurjumÃÂn al-AshwÃÂq, Traduit de lâÂÂarabe (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 mÃÂstico: Ibn Zaydun e Ibn ÿArabi (Mexico City: Porrua, 1988) [Spanish translation].
- Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de los Deseos (TarÃ
·umÃÂn al-AÃ
¡wÃÂq), trans. by Carlos Varona Narvión (Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, Colección Ibn Arabi, 2002) [Spanish translation].
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