Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses

by Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Author), Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Author), Charlotte Mandell (Translator), Jean-Luc Nancy (Afterword)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $90.48

  Presents a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture, and from Dante, who learned from Ibn Arabi a poetry of sensual love as initiation into spiritual experience.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $34.67

  Captures their white refractions in vignettes that teach us the truth of the coincidence of contraries, of how the impure lodges in the pure. This book offers a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture.