SUFI POEMS OF THE GREAT ARABIC POET IBN ARABI. Translation Introduction Paul Smith. In the West he is known as the Doctor Maximus and in the Islamic world as The Great Master. Born in Murcia in Spain in 1165 his family moved to Seville. At thirtyfive he left for Mecca where he completed his most influential book of poems The Interpreter of Ardent Desires (Tarjuman alAshwaq) and began writing his masterpiece, the vast Meccan Revelations. In 1204 he began further travels. In 1223 he settled in Damascus where he lived the last seventeen years of his life, dying in 1240. His tomb there is still an important place of pilgrimage. A prolific writer, Ibn Arabi is generally known as the prime exponent of the idea later known as the Unity of Being. His emphasis was on the true potential of the human being and the path to realizing that potential and becoming the Perfect or complete person. Hundreds of works are attributed to him including a large Divan of poems most of which have yet to be translated. Introduction... on his life and poetry, forms he composed in Sufism in poetry, Selected Bibliography. Appendix The Tarjuman alAshwaq of Ibn Arabi, Translation of Poems Commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson. The correct rhymestructure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of this selection of his beautiful, mystical poems in the forms of qitas, ghazals and a qasida. Large Print (16pt) Large Format Paperback (8" x 10") 320 pages. Comments on Paul Smiths Translation of Hafizs...

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