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The Pleasure Trip of Sweethearts Reunited after the Agonies of Love Unrequited in the City of Tiryaq in Iraq
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An Explanation of the Plot of this BookNaʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…

Contributor:

Abraham Daninos

Places:

Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)

Date:

1847

Subjects:

Love, Women, Sephardic, Arabic

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature
Love for an honored woman
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Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination, While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile. My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…

Contributor:

Shalem Shabazī

Places:

Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)

Date:

ca. 1679/80

Subjects:

Women, Love, Theology, Piety, Mysticism

Categories:

Literature, Liturgical Poetry, Poetry