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13th Century

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Timeline (1165 - 1240)

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English version by
Reynold A. Nicholson

Original Language
Arabic

Oh, her beauty--the tender maid!

Themes

Light

Mountain

Water

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	Ibn al-Arabi: Bezels of Wisdom (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi / Edited by R. W. J. Austin
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Oh, her beauty--the tender maid! Its brilliance gives light like lamps to one travelling in the dark.
She is a pearl hidden in a shell of hair as black as jet,
A pearl for which Thought dives and remains unceasingly in the deeps of that ocean.
He who looks upon her deems her to be a gazelle of the sand-hills, because of her shapely neck and the loveliness of her gestures.

-- from The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson

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