Diwan of Ibn al-Farid

Ibn al-Farid, the poet of Sufi ecstasy, swimming in clouds of light in distant horizons, is also the Sultan of Lovers who withdrew from the world, abandoned material life, and traveled the river of divine love, reciting his poetry on the banks of the Nile, engraving the hymns of the soul on the green leaves of trees and the bare vegetation of nature. Ibn al-Farid, this Sufi seeker of the truth of ...