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Graphis 338 March/April 2002 B. Martin Pedersen
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Les Oiseaux et les Fleurs. Allégories Morales d'Izz al-Din Abd al-Salam Ibn AhmadIbn Ghanim al-Makdisi, publiées en arabe, avec une traduction et des notes par M. Garcin de Tassy.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xxviii, 240 pp., of French text, 118 pp., of Arabic text, half-titles, contemporary vellum boards, gilt-tooled spine with red leather lettering piece, light foxing on French and Arabic preliminaries, speckled edges, otherwise copy in very good condition. FIRST edition of a 13th-century collection of spiritual allegories interpreting silent messages communicated by birds, flowers, and animals. The author, 'Izz al-Din al-Maqdisî, begins by establishing that there is nothing in Nature which is not endowed with the faculty of being heard by an intelligible way. To Man alone is reserved the use of speech; but the other creatures, whether animate or inanimate, also seem to express themselves, in their manner of being, in a silent language. Moreover, this language is " more eloquent than speech and more essentially true. Thus, the roses spread a precious perfume which penetrates to the bottom of the heart and which tells their secrets; the nightingales, on the branches which sway them, modulate their loves; and the high peaks of the trees move as if to celebrate the vision of God. Starting from this idea, the author is supposed to be in the middle of a grandiose garden; there, busy studying the discourses of all the beings that Nature offers to his senses, he applies himself to interpret them and discover therein lessons not only moral, but also spiritual and mystical. " Believe, " he says, " that he who does not know how to draw an allegorical sense of the sour cry of the door, the buzzing of the fly, the barking of the dog, the movement of the insects that agitate in the dust; that he who does not know how to understand what is indicated by the march of the nakedness, the gleam of the mirage, the hue of the fog, is not among the number of intelligent people. To avoid falling into the darkness of thought where many other Sufis have fallen, al-Maqdisi follows a gradual march. So his first allegories are more earthy than his last, where there is a question of divine love: " The veil of mystery, at first thick, gradually lightened and sometimes lifted up; finally, it falls entirely, and the name of God comes, in the last allegory to explain all the enigmas.". Seller Inventory # 006546
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