Michael Sells

Michael Sells is a professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is an authority on Ibn al-‘Arabī as well as one of the most distinguished contemporary translators of classical Arabic poetry. His books include Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes (Wesleyan University Press, 1989), Mystical Languages of Unsaying (University of Chicago Press, 1994), Early Islamic Mysticism (Paulist Press, 1996), The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (University of California Press, 1996), Approaching the Qur’an (White Cloud, 1999), and The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Andalus (Cambridge, 2000). He is currently working on a complete bilingual edition and translation of Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Tarjuman al-Ashwaq.