Tag: Ibn

The Black Knight of Arabia: Antarah ibn Shaddad

When you think of concepts like honor, courtly love, and noblesse oblige, you likely conjure up images of European knights in steel-plate armor, mounted on giant destriers. European dress, European arms, and European mounts. These knights (in their real and fictional forms) may be dueling for a lady...

3 Poems By Ibn Arabi, You Ought To Read

I always thought, that it’s just Rumi who writes in magical tones you cannot get over. But once I read, Ibn Arabi, I am dead sure, it’s not the poet who has the magical overtones in his writings but it’s the common element in them, that has. It’s but Sufism. No matt...