Motif
beauty as garden and life-water
beauty_as_garden_and_life_water
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Persian Mystics: Jámí MIRROR AND FACE / THE COMING OF THE BELOVED / THE WAYS OF LOVE / THE BEAUTY OF ZULAIKHA; lines 1490-1513 confidence: high
Zulaikha’s face is compared to the garden of Iram with multicolored roses, and her dark moles are compared to Moorish boys in rose-beds.
The passage repeatedly renders bodily beauty through garden imagery, roses, a well, Water of Life, and a fount.
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