Poetry is an essential dimension of Ibn ‘Arabi’s work. His well-known Tarjuman al-ashwaq is entirely made up of poems, but there is a great deal of verse in his other writings. Roger Deladriere found that there were more than 7000 lines of verse in the Futuhat al-Makkiyya, for example. The year 2011 was the centenary of the publication of The Tarjuman al-ashwaq by R. A. Nicholson, the Arabic text with a translation into English, the first work by Ibn ‘Arabi to appear in a Western language. For more in depth about the place of poetry in Ibn ‘Arabi’s writing, see the article by Claude Addas “The Ship … Continue reading Selected Poems by Ibn Arabi