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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: December 2015
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. December 21, 2015. An excerpt from my translation of the Names of the Lion. By Ibn Khālawayh will appear in the expanded 2017 edition. Of Technicians of the Sacred. Tr by David Larsen. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Sabah Fakhri, Yā hādī al-‘īs. O Palomino Camel Driver"). Song-text from The Necklace Without Peer. Source: Mawawil and Mouwachahat.
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. If you were led here by internet search, you probably wonder what you're reading, and longtime readers probably wonder the same. A translation blog is what I call this, in the casual sense that all the verbal content is translated by me. Theory of translation concerns me intensely, but all you'll find here are unplanned results of practice. It began as a sponge of Apelles. Of Ibn Ḥamdūn ran to a dozen manuscript volumes,.
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Translations of Islamicate texts – Ian D. Morris
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Tidbits of wisdom on the origins of Islam. Translations of Islamicate texts. Inspired by Klingschor’s list. Of online translations of medieval Arabic works, here is an ongoing list of premodern Islamicate texts that have been translated into European languages. Many of these can be found in major Orientalist libraries. Please send me. Listed alphabetically by title in their original languages, but disregarding. Tr Jean Tardy, in. By Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī. Jalal Badakhchani (I. B. Tauris 2010). Tr Abbas Kadhi...
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: November 2015
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. November 30, 2015. A letter for ‘Umar. No mortal [eye] ever beheld a letter like the one that came to me. Full of camphor, musk and ambergris. Candied in black and yellow, the letter was redolent. With blond-red musk imbued by a [smoky] censer. It was written on a sheet of Quhistani. Silk], and its tie-cord. Inside, the greeting [said]: "To you from me,.
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: May 2013
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. May 26, 2013. The voice of Misunderstanding (a comic prologue). In a wood of Corinth there lay exposed. A baby boy and girl, 'til an old woman. Passing by came to their rescue. Unable to care for both, she planned to raise. The girl herself] most willingly, and give. The boy to the mistress of this house,. Who was a wealthy dame devoid of children.
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: February 2016
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. February 25, 2016. Names of simpletons whose comic tales have been written up as books by unknown authors:. Comic Tales of Juha. Comic Tales of Abu Damdam. Comic Tales of Ibn Ahmar. Comic Tales of Sawra the Bedouin. Comic Tales of Ibn al-Mawsili. Comic Tales of Ibn Ya‘qub. Comic Tales of Abu ‘Ubayd al-Hazmi. Comic Tales of Abu ‘Alqama. Tr by David Larsen.
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: October 2015
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. October 20, 2015. Guest lecture by Martin Schwartz. Tr by David Larsen. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Sabah Fakhri, Yā hādī al-‘īs. O Palomino Camel Driver"). Song-text from The Necklace Without Peer. Of Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi (second poem in the "Tale of the Mad Lover," also here. Source: Mawawil and Mouwachahat. 8226; Veterinary medicine in Ancient Egypt.
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: August 2015
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. August 16, 2015. A Bacchic scene by ‘Ali ibn al-Jahm. A flute pours out its woes with a plaintive sob, to the. Tumult of the bows and strings. And the rose is laughing. It is a breezy day's debut into the bloom of spring,. Highlit like a bride's outfit in pearls and gold. The revels of night become day-drinks. Frivolity keeps. Willed [by the drinker].
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: March 2016
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. March 25, 2016. From the neck of an Athenian rhyton (ca. 460 BCE) attributed to Douris. Art Institute of Chicago ( 1905.345. Tr by David Larsen. March 5, 2016. Comic Tales of Sayfawayh. Was a byword for dull-wittedness. Muhammad ibn al-‘Abbas ibn Hayyawayh said:. Sayfawayh was asked: "You who instruct the people, why do you not relate hadith? Suppuratio...
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field: May 2016
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David Larsen's Writing Gathering Field. A qaṣīda by al-A‘shā. In The Brooklyn Rail. 33% OFF - $12 INSTEAD OF $18 - NOW TIL MARCH 31. See what else where. May 7, 2016. Names of the Undershirt. Ibn Khālawayh said: There are no names for the undershirt besides al-ṣudra. Al-mijwal, al-baqīr, al-‘ilqa, al-shawdhar, al-ṣirār, al-qid‘a, al-itb, al-khay‘al. All mean the same thing, which is "undershirt." And al-maḥjana. Is related to the verbs qada‘a. To restrain a horse" and qadi‘a. Nafsī minka mudh zamān.
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