Bewildered by Muhyiddin Ibn Al-‘Arabi and translated by Michael Sells

This is poetry from Spain.

Bewildered by Muhyiddin Ibn Al-‘Arabi translated by Michael Sells is published by The Post-Apollo Press / Litmus Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933959375E12.

Bewildered, by Muhyiddin Ibn Al-‘Arabi, is a Arabic poetry collection from Spain, translated by Michael Sells, published by The Post-Apollo Press / Litmus Press in 2018. It is a volume of Ibn al-‘Arabi that approaches bewilderment as a spiritual intelligence, not confusion to be corrected. Rather than forcing the poems into a clean thesis, I would let the book remain somewhat unruly. Translation is useful exactly there, where the English line carries both arrival and residue. What matters is the reader’s permission to sit with that residue until feeling arrives before explanation. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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