The Mantle Adorned: Imam al-Busiri's Burda

The Mantle Adorned is a completely new translation of the Burda (Mantle Poem) of Imam Sharaf al-Din al-Busiri (d.1297). Abdal Hakim Murad has consulted the classical commentaries to produce this clear and careful English version. Murad has added to each verse a further verse of poetry by another poet, which expresses a...