Day: December 6, 2015

Ibn ‘Arabi: Interpreter of Desires

  A beautiful recording of Ibn ‘Arabi’s poetry sung in a ḥaḍrah:   Translation: Poem 1: Who will show me her of the dyed fingers? Who will show me her of the honeyed tongue? She is one of the girls with swelling breasts who guard their honour, tender, virgin, and beautiful Full moons over branches:…

Boutchichi Ḥaḍrah

  Some of the finest recordings of Ḥaḍrah music I’ve found online are these recordings of a Boutchichi gathering in which they sing a poem by Shaykh ‘abd al-Raḥman Shaghouri :     Translation: The Saqi approahced us and presented the cup to us So we sipped and quenched our thirst from the cups of Hamza (al-Hashim…