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Timeline (1165 - 1240)

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English version by
Michael A. Sells

Original Language
Arabic

In the Mirror of a Man

Themes

Garden

Light

Lotus

Lover and Beloved

Rose

Recommended Books

	Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, by Henry Corbin
	Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Michael A. Sells
	Ibn al-Arabi: Bezels of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi / Edited by R. W. J. Austin
	Ibn Arabi, by William Chittick
	Ibn Arabi and the Voyage of No Return, by Claude Addas

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She said: I wondered at a love
that struts its glory
through the garden's
flowers as they blossom.

I said: don't wonder
at what you see.
You see yourself
in the mirror of a man.

-- from Stations of Desire: Love Elegies from Ibn 'Arabi and New Poems, by Michael A. Sells

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