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Tombeau of Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi
Translated from French by Abdelwahab Meddeb
Tombeau of Ibn Arabi, by Ibn Arabi and translated from French by Abdelwahab Meddeb, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be mysticism, devotion, homage, and the afterlife of sacred speech, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Tunisia into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. Tombeau of Ibn Arabi belongs here because it enlarges the shelf's emotional and linguistic weather.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Tunisia
- ISBN
- 9780823231157