Les Mu’allaqât. Les sept poèmes préislamiques. Islam as well as architecture enthusiasts

as well as architecture enthusiasts

parfois monstrueux

nourished by varied typographies

far from the gaze of Western industrial nations

Les Mu’allaqât. Les sept poèmes préislamiques. Islam as well as architecture enthusiastsAlthough 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: