by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111)
Translation by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Près de ton âme tout l'été
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
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Près de ton âme tout l'été, Je me suis nourri de lumière, J’ai bu, j’ai mangé ta beauté, J’ai bu ta clarté printanière !
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 42.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1907, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 62, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Près de ton âme", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel
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