Tarjumān al-Ashwāq


Interpreter of Desires is a collection of 61 self-standing nasībs by the Andalusian Sufi mystic Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī.

Editions and translations

Arabic

  • Ibn al-ʿArabī, Dhakhāʾir al-Aʿlāq: Sharḥ. Turjumān al-Ashwāq, ed. Muḥ ammad Abd al-Raḥ mān al-Kurdī .
  • Ibn al-ʿArabī, Turjumān al-Ashwāq .

English

  • Reynold Nicholson, The Tarjumán al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes by Muhyiddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī.
  • Sells, Michael, The Translator of Desires: Poems.
  • Sells, Michael, 'Return to the Flash Rock Plain of Thahmad: Two Nasībs by Ibn al-ʿArabī', Journal of Arabic Literature, 39, 3–13 ; DOI: 10.1163/157006408X310825 .
  • Sells, M., ‘ “You’d Have Seen What Melts the Mind”: Ibn al-ʿArabī's Poem #20 from the Turjumān al-Ashwāq’, in Jonathan P. Decter and Michael Rand, eds., Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin.
  • Sells, Michael, Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn al-ʿArabī and New Poems .
  • Sells, Michael, 'Ibn 'Arabi's "Gentle Now, Doves of the Thornberry and Moringa Thicket" ', The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 10, http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/poemtarjuman11.html .

Romance

  • Maurice Gloton, L’Interprète des Désires, Turjumān al-Ashwāq, Traduit de l’arabe .
  • Vincente Cantorino., Casidas de amor profano y místico: Ibn Zaydun e Ibn ʿArabi .
  • Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de los Deseos , trans. by Carlos Varona Narvión .