رسالة الغفران

About this book

“رسالة الغفران” is a book by Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri in the “Arts & Architecture” category, written in Arabic. You can read it in full and for free on Safahat (Hindawi Foundation), under an agreement with its rights holders, using the button above. Similar books are listed below.

About the author

Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri (973–1057), the blind poet-philosopher of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in Syria, lost his sight to smallpox as a child and became one of the most learned men of his time. After a stay in Baghdad he shut himself away at home for almost fifty years, calling himself 'the prisoner of two prisons': blindness and his house.

His youthful diwan Saqt al-Zand, the sceptical, demanding Luzumiyyat and the Epistle of Forgiveness, an imagined journey to the afterlife among poets, still read as remarkably modern.