by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111)
Translation by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Prélude
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Our translations: ENG
Oh ! le lotus, la fleur fermée, Où donc peut-elle être, l'aimée, Vers qui je dois aller un jour Avec mes pleurs et mon amour ?
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 11.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Prélude", appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 1 [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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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Prelude", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 25