خلاصه ماشینی:
"On the problem of the ideal lover in poetry the Basra school elaborated the cynical and sceptical style of the `city poets'''', while at kدfa the scholars, who compiled more or less authentic divجns, created the myth of the pre - Islamic splendour of the `Arab desert civilization, and proposed a Platonic ideal of pure love which exercised a decisive influence on Persian poetry and painting.
''''(_) Clearly this is not a just description of the cult but a polemical caricatur, that does not refer exactly to either Mجni or Hallجj, but summarizes the essential character of that peculiar development of crystalline aesthetic sentimentality, as transparent as a rainbow, which Islam derived from a rather dramatic Manichaean concept, that of the imprisonment of particles of the divine light in the demoniac matrix of matter.
Over the liturgical illumination of the Manichaeans, with its opposition between light and the darkness of the colours, and its siderated faces, struck by lightning and exploding into golden bits, the resigned calm of Islamic inspiration has passed, a memory without regret and without hope, the peaceful faith of thought, so that the `impure'''' colours have been illumined and ennobled, while the precious metals have been immaterialized.
'''' 10 - The people of Basra criticized the eccentricities of the kدfa ascetics, whether it was a question of the legends used in their sermons (Ibn `Ammجr: legend of Uvays), or of the wearing of the sدf, which was first popularized by the people of kدfa (see MASSIGNON, Essai sur le lexique, paris, 1922, p."