Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: « The tree is of extreme height/Although enormous, it has a seed as its origin/Its perfect fruits are not hidden/Truly perfect, they are not veiled/Your boat is named Herald/The expert artisan named beauty/Has built [this] boat in the Estuary of the Omnipotent... (st. 8)/It is omnipotent, hard is the work/To go patiently around the world/And in various ways to return to the Sea of the Veiling One... (st. 58)/The Shore of Allah is the name of its [the boat’s] anchorage.../The Centre of the Circles is the name of its sailing master.../His place is not behind the passengers, he knows when the wind changes.This master is expert and wise/Navigating in the boundless sea... (sts. 79, 49-50)/They are birds, who climb mountains/These birds do not fly... (sts. 85-86)/Many of your ennemies will assail/Thy ship, if it comes upon reefs.../[They are all around] numerous reefs, distant shallows/Treacherous rocks and islands (sts. 71, 76). » (cite par V. Braginsky 1998 : 57-59).
Source: Techniques & culture
DOI: 10.4000/tc.274
Authors: Laura Bogani, Jacques Ivanoff
Language: French
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2048612121