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Thanks and Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
A Book of Multiple Beginnings | |
Prologue | |
The First Human Beings, Their Sons and Amazon Daughters | |
Hanno the Navigator (Carthage, c. sixth century B.C.E.) | |
from The Periplos of Hanno | |
Callimachus (Cyrene, 310-c. 240 B.C.E.) | |
Thirteen Epigrammatic Poems | |
Mago (Carthage, pre-second century B.C.E.) | |
from De Agricultura | |
Lucius Apuleius (Madaurus, now M'Daourouch, c. 123-c. 180 C.E.) | |
from The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses | |
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (Carthage, c. 160-c. 220 C.E.) | |
from De Pallio (The Cloak) | |
from Scorpiace (The Scorpion) | |
Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (Carthage, early third century-258 C.E.) | |
from Epistle to Donatus | |
Lucius Lactantius (Cirta?, c. 240-Trier?, c. 320 C.E.) | |
from De Ave Phoenice | |
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Saint Augustine) (Thagaste, 354-Hippo, 430 C.E.) | |
from Confessions | |
from De Doctrina Christiana | |
from De fide rerum invisibilium | |
from Psalmus contra Partem Donati | |
Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (Carthage, c. 455-c. 505 C.E.) | |
The Chariot of Venus | |
De Mensibus (Months) | |
The Origin of Roses | |
Luxorius (Carthage, sixth century C.E.) | |
[They say, that when the fierce bear gives birth . . .] | |
Premature Chariot | |
First Diwan | |
A Book of In-Betweens: Al-Andalus, Sicily, the Maghreb | |
Prologue | |
Anonymous Muwashshaha | |
Some Kharjas | |
Ibn Hani al-Andalusi (Seville, c. 934-Barca, Libya, 973) | |
Al-Jilnar | |
Extinction Is the Truth . . . | |
Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (958-1030) | |
from Ode in Praise of Khairan al-'Amiri, Emir of Almería | |
from Ode in Praise of al-Mansur al-'Amiri, Emir of Córdoba | |
Abu Amir Ibn Shuhayd (Córdoba, 992-1035) | |
from Qasida (I) | |
Córdoba | |
from Qasida (II) | |
"As he got his fill of delirious wine" | |
Gravestone Qasida | |
Yusuf ibn Harun al-Ramadi (d. c. 1022) | |
Hugging Letters and Beauty Spots | |
Silver Breast | |
Gold Nails | |
The Swallow | |
O Rose . . . | |
Yosef ibn Abitur (mid-tenth century-c. 1012) | |
The "Who?" of Ibn Abitur of Córdoba | |
Hafsa bint Hamdun (Wadi al-Hijara, now Guadalajara, tenth century) | |
Four Poems | |
Samuel Ha-Levi ibn Nagrella, called ha-Nagid, "the Prince" (Merida, 993-Granada, 1055) | |
Three Love Poems | |
War Poem | |
Ibn Hazm (Córdoba, 994-Niebla, 1064) | |
My Heart | |
from The Neck-Ring of the Dove | |
FROM "AUTHOR'S PREFACE" | |
OF FALLING IN LOVE WHILE ASLEEP | |
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (Córdoba, 994-1091) | |
Six Poems | |
Ibn Rashiq (Masila, Algeria, c. 1-Mazara, Sicily, c. 1064) | |
from Lament over the Fall of the City of Kairouan | |
Ibn Zaydun (Córdoba, 1003-1071) | |
Fragments from the Qasida in the Rhyme of Nun | |
Written from al-Zahra' | |
Salomon ibn Gabirol (Malaga, c. 1020-Valencia, c. 1058) | |
The 16-Year-Old Poet | |
from The Crown of Kingdom | |
Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Seville, 1040-Aghmat, 1095) | |
To Abu Bakr ibn 'Ammar Going to Silves | |
To Rumaykiyya | |
Ibn Hamdis (Noto, Sicily, 1056-Majorca, 1133) | |
He Said, Remembering Sicily and His Home, Syracuse | |
Ibn Labbana (Benissa, mid-eleventh century-Majorca, 1113) | |
Al-Mu'tamid and His Family Go into Exile | |
Two Muwashshahat | |
Moses ibn Ezra (Granada, c. 1058-c. 1135) | |
Drinking Song | |
Song | |
Al-A'ma al-Tutili (b. Tudela, c. late eleventh century-d. 1126) | |
Water-Fire Muwashshaha | |
Ibn Khafadja (Alcita, province of Valencia, 1058-1138) | |
The River | |
Yehuda Halevi, the Cantor of Zion (Toledo, 1075-Cairo, 1141) | |
from Yehuda Halevi's Songs to Zion | |
The Garden | |
Ibn Quzman (Córdoba, 1078-1160) | |
[A muwashshaha] | |
The Crow | |
Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) | |
"I have a garment" | |
Abu Madyan Shu'ayb (Sidi Boumedienne) (Cantillana, 1126-Tlemcen, 1198) | |
You Will Be Served in Your Glass | |
Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya (Granada, 1135-Marrakech, 1190) | |
Eight Poems | |
Ibn Arabi, al-Sheikh al-Akhbar (Murcia, 1165-Damascus, 1240) | |
"I | |
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