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Title: The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love by Ibn Hazm, A. J. Arberry ISBN: 1-898942-03-X Publisher: Weatherhill Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Ibn Hazm's book on love and lovers
Comment: Ibn Hazm's psychology is subtly manifested in this book. He gives detailed description of love as an attribute and accident. Also, the different catagories of love, including: falling in love while asleep, falling in love through a description, falling in love at first sight, etc. The readers should keep in mind that much of material in this book is not something Ibn Hazm himself endorses, if it can be correctly attributed to him. Rather, he is merely scrutinizing scenarios from the lives of the people he knew or was told about - be they righteous or sinful. I must add, Ibn Hazm reconciles his stance towards this subject by devoting the last two chapters on purely orthodox and morally accepted chapters: "The Vileness of Sinning" & "The Virtue of Continence".
A word about the translator would be beneficial. Even though A.J.Arberry is eloquent in his English language, after all he is a doctor in literature, I must admit that he isn't quite there in mastery of the Arabic language, especially classical Arabic, and specifically, that of Ibn Hazm's time. A.J. Berry has tried his best, yet has made some mistakes in translation. This is especially seen when he translates the poems liberally for the sake of the rhyme in the English language. I personally believe he shouldn't have done that. As one cannot make a poem rhyme in both languages. If it rhymes in Arabic, it won't rhyme in English, due to obvious reasons. He took considerable liberties for that purpose. The result is: much of poetry loses its orginality, in terms of language, syntax and diction. Moreover, this work was translated in the 1940's, some 60 years ago. Hence, the period of time might also be responsible for the odd English structures. I would really like a fresh new translation of this work due to this reason.
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Title: Poems of Arab Andalusia by Cola Franzen ISBN: 0872862429 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal ISBN: 0316168718 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain by Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick, Jerrilynn Denise Dodds ISBN: 0807612863 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal ISBN: 0691017549 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1969 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher ISBN: 0520084969 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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