Tarjumān al-Ashwāq

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Teachers Ibn 'Asakir (d. 571/1176) Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d. 576/1180) Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 578/1183) 'Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili [ar] (d. 581/1185) Abu Zayd al-Suhayli (d. 581/1185) Abu Madyan (d. 594/1197) Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (d. 595/1198) Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1201) Ibn Abi Jamra [ar] (d. 599/1202) Al-Qasim ibn 'Asakir [ar] (d. 600/1203) Jamal al-Din b. al-Harastani [ar] (d. 614/1217) Ibn Malik (d. 672/1274)
Students Baha' al-Din Ghazi b. al-'Adil I (d. 613/1216) Ibn al-Farid (d. 632/1235) Zakiy al-Din al-Birzali [ar] (d. 636/1239) Shams al-Din al-Khuwayyi [ar] (d. 637/1239) Ibn al-Dubaythi (d. 637/1239) Ibn al-Najjar (d. 643/1245) Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (d. 643/1245) Sa'd al-Din al-Hamawi (d. 650/1252) Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi (d. 672/1273) Baybars (d. 676/1277)
Admirers and defenders Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606/1209) Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (d. 632/1234) Ibn al-Zamalkani [ar] (d. 651/1253) Al-Baydawi (d. 685/1286) Al-Qashani [tr] (d. 730/1329) Badr al-Din ibn Jama'a [de] (d. 733/1333) Al-Safadi (d. 764/1363) Haydar Amuli (d. after 787/1385) Al-Sharif al-Jurjani (d. 816/1413) Siraj al-Din al-Makhzumi [ar] (d. 885/1480) 'Abd al-Rahman al-Jāmī (d. 898/1492) Jalal al-Din al-Dawani (d. 907/1501) Al-Suyuti (d. 911/1505) Zakariyya al-Ansari (d. 926/1520) Ibn Kamal Pasha (d. 940/1534) Al-Sha'rani (d. 973/1565) Ebussuud Efendi (d. 982/1574) Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (d. 974/1567) 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi (d. 1032/1622) Ahmad al-Maqqari (d. 1041/1631) Mulla Sadra (d. 1050/1640) Kâtip Çelebi (d. 1067/1657) Ibn al-'Imad al-Hanbali (d. 1089/1679) Niyazi Misri (d. 1105/1694) Isma'il Haqqi al-Brusawi (d. 1137/1725) 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1143/1731) Mustafa al-Bakri [ar] (d. 1162/1749) Hamid al-'Imadi (d. 1171/1758) Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205/1791) Ibn 'Abidin (d. 1252/1836) Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (d. 1332/1914) Badr al-Din al-Hasani [ar] (d. 1354/1935) Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (d.1362/1943) Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (d. 1371/1951) Gibril Fouad Haddad · Nuh Ha Mim Keller Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Critics and opponents Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) 'Ala' al-Dawla Simnani (d. 736/1336) Al-Taftazani (d. 793/1390) Ibn Khaldun (d. 808/1405) Wali al-Din al-'Iraqi [ar] (d. 826/1423) Taqi al-Din al-Fasi (d. 832/1429) 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 841/ 1437) Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 852/1449) Ibn Imam al-Kamiliyya [ar] (d. 874/1470) Burhan al-Din al-Biqa'i [ar] (d. 885/1480) Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi (d. 902/1497) Ibn Iyas (d. 930/1524) Mulla 'Ali al-Qari (d. 1014/1606) Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034/1624)
Ex-critics 'Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam (d. 660/1262) Taqi al-Din al-Subki (d. 756/1355) Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini (d. 805/1405) Al-Shawkani (d. 1250/1834)
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Tarjumān al-Ashwāq (ترجمان الأشواق, 'the interpreter/translator/guide/biographer of longings/desires')^[1] is a collection of 61 self-standing nasībs by the Andalusian Sufi mystic Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165–1240).

Editions and translations

Arabic

Ibn al-ʿArabī, Dhakhāʾir al-Aʿlāq: Sharḥ. Turjumān al-Ashwāq, ed. Muḥ ammad Abd al-Raḥ mān al-Kurdī (Cairo, 1968) [includes both poems and Ibn al-ʿArabī's commentary].
Ibn al-ʿArabī, Turjumān al-Ashwāq (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1966) [includes both poems and Ibn al-ʿArabī's commentary].

English

Reynold Nicholson, The Tarjumán al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes by Muhyiddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (1911, London: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Series, New Series xx; reprinted in 1981 by the Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, Illinois).
Sells, Michael, 'Return to the Flash Rock Plain of Thahmad: Two Nasībs by Ibn al-ʿArabī', Journal of Arabic Literature, 39 (2008), 3–13 (p. 4); DOI: 10.1163/157006408X310825 [translates poems 22 and 26].
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 (Gorgias Press, 2007).
Sells, Michael, Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn al-ʿArabī and New Poems (Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2001) [translates 24 of the poems into English].
Sells, Michael, 'Ibn 'Arabi's "Gentle Now, Doves of the Thornberry and Moringa Thicket" (ālā yā hamāmāti l-arākati wa l-bāni)', The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 10 (1991), http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/poemtarjuman11.html [translates poem 11].

Romance

Maurice Gloton (trans.), L’Interprète des Désires, Turjumān al-Ashwāq, Traduit de l’arabe (Paris: Albin Michel, 1997) [complete French translation of both the poems and their author's commentary upon them].
Vincente Cantorino (trans)., Casidas de amor profano y místico: Ibn Zaydun e Ibn ʿArabi (Mexico City: Porrua, 1988) [Spanish translation].
Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de los Deseos (Tarŷumān al-Ašwāq), trans. by Carlos Varona Narvión (Murcia: Editora Regional de Murcia, Colección Ibn Arabi, 2002) [Spanish translation].

References

^ Michael Sells, 'Return to the Flash Rock Plain of Thahmad: Two Nasībs by Ibn al-˛Arabī', Journal of Arabic Literature, 39 (2008), 3–13 (p. 4); DOI: 10.1163/157006408X310825.