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Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses
Abdelwahab Meddeb
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Description for Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses
Hardback. 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. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBT; BGA; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Abdelwahab Meddeb crosses boundaries in unusual and important ways. Born in Tunis, he is now a French national. In his academic and literary work, he is concerned with the roots and history of Islam and with crossings, like his own, between Islam and Europe. He is an author of extraordinarily beautiful French; this is the first book to represent this lyrical aspect of his work in English translation.
White Traverses is a poetic memoir about growing up in Tunisia and the contrasts between Islamic and European influences. In it, the intense colors and blinding whites of the Maghreb interweave ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
Number of Pages
116
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823231140
SKU
V9780823231140
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99-15
About Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014) was novelist and poet who taught comparative literature at the Université Paris X (Nanterre). Meddeb published more than twenty books in French. His La maladie de l’islam, winner of the Prix François Mauriac, has been translated into English as The Malady of Islam. Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg ... Read more
Reviews for Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses
Abdelwahab Meddeb is doubtlessly the major Tunisian writer of his generation. This book presents cutting-edge writing that stands out as among the most innovative contemporary work-not only North African, but world-wide-in its genre-breaking narrative investigations via autobiography, poetry, cultural analysis, Sufi meditation, literary reflection & travel writing. Meddeb is a major scholar of Arab culture and a specialist of Ibn ... Read more