Les Mu’allaqât. Les sept poèmes préislamiques. Islam In the summer of 2020

In the summer of 2020

This was a time when collectors were passionate about Japan and its civilization

parfois monstrueux

far from the gaze of Western industrial nations

Such a reading leads to the resolution of the problem of the authorship of the work: who are the Brothers in Purity

Les Mu’allaqât. Les sept poèmes préislamiques. Islam In the summer of 2020Although these seven great pre Islamic poems are famous and recognized as the source of all Arabic poetry, there are only a few complete and coherent translations, and they are not without criticism: too far removed from the text or too academic. This is why Pierre Larcher, a renowned linguist and professor at Aix en Provence, undertook this complete translation, annotated and commented, which his master Andr Miquel hails in his preface as an event: