🌿 About: Depth Beyond Belief
Depth Beyond Belief is a personal project of mine; where I endeavour to express my love for Arabic poetry; not simply translated or explaining it, but following it through with a story
Each post takes the form of a story wrapped around a verse, or a verse wrapped around a story. The best material for this I could find was Ma’ari’s Risalat Al Ghufran. Information on that can be found on the welcome post on my page.
I aim for my commentaries to not be dry. Rather have them be immersive journeys through the minds of poets through the verses cited in the book; All the classical Arab poets who weren’t only wanderers of desert but also wanderers of meaning, metaphysics, and metaphor.
Here, you can hope to encounter:
– The surreal afterlife of Ibn al-Qāriḥ in Risālat al-Ghufrān
– Exquisite tastes of Arabic Verse
– The sorrow of lost odes and the joyous longing of wandering souls
All the while, Learning a bit of Arabic Along the way :D.
You don’t need to read Arabic to feel what these poets meant. I provide both transliteration and translation of the Arabic Verse.
Each of which serves as a veneer into the mind of unrecognized geniouses, through story, context, and contemplation.📬 Posts drop weekly, with future planned occasional verse commentaries and audio.
🔒 Paid members can support this work if they find it beneficial for them.
I hope for this place to become a refuge for seekers of form, spirit, and meaning through the shadow of the Arabic tongue.
Encouraging Participation:
I would love to encourage discussions, and hear from readers who may just be more knowledgeable on the subject than I.
