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Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

About Fakhruddin Iraqi

Timeline (? - 1289)

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English version by
William Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

In those days

Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
	Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein
	Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

In those days
     before a trace
of the two worlds,
     no "other" yet imprinted
on the Tablet of Existence,
     I, the Beloved, and Love
lived together
     in the corner
of an uninhabited
     cell.

-- from Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein

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