Table of Contents
Translator's Introduction xii
Acknowledgments xxxv
Note on Arabic Names xxxvii
The Translator of Desires
1 Bewildered 3
2 Release 5
3 The Offering 11
4 As Night Let Down Its Curtain 15
5 Harmony Gone 19
6 Artemisia and Moringa 23
7 Gowns of Dark 25
8 Who Forever 29
9 Soft-Eyed Graces 33
10 Mirror 35
11 Gentle Now, Doves 37
12 Sunblaze 43
13 Grief Between 47
14 Hadith of Love 53
15 Just a Flash 57
16 Star Shepherd 61
17 God Curse My Love 67
18 As Cool as Life 71
19 The Tombs of Those Who Loved Them 75
20 In a Bad Way 79
21 Your Wish 89
22 Blacksilver 93
23 Blaze 97
24 Stay Now 103
25 Vanished 109
26 Vintage of Adam 113
27 Old Shrine 117
28 No New Moon Risen 121
29 Circling 127
30 Like Sába's Lost Tribes 135
31 Áda Trail 149
32 Fifty Years 155
33 Drowning Eyes 157
34 Sweet the Gaze 159
35 You Now 161
36 Lightning over Gháda 163
37 Come Down to the Waters 165
38 A Persian Girl 169
39 Day Falls Night 171
40 Odd to Even 175
41 My Only Guide 179
42 Sign Masters 185
43 Parting's Hour 189
44 Chimera 193
45 Where Gone 197
46 Cool Lightning 199
47 The Turning 203
48 Brave 205
49 In the Ruins of My Body 209
50 Done 211
51 Nightwalker 213
52 Rídwa 215
53 Like a Doubled Letter 219
54 Dár al-Fálak 221
55 No Cure 225
56 Baghdad Song 227
57 Red Rise 231
58 Is There a Way 233
59 I Came to Know 237
60 Artemisia and Arâr 241
61 Tigris Song 243
Notes to the Poems 245
Appendix 1 Nizam Preface 281
Appendix 2 Qurrat al-'Ayn Preface 284
Appendix 3 Apologia 286
Appendix 4 Ibn 'Arabi's Poem on al-Zahra' 287
Appendix 5 Chronology of Ibn 'Arabi's Life and Times 288
Appendix 6 Establishing the Text: Manuscripts, Editions, and Method 290
Appendix 7 Annotated Chronology of Tarjuman Translations 299
Glossary 303
Notes 309