Live characters from songs

Author's name: Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil

In this enjoyable book, Mohamed El-Mansi Qandil introduces us to selected characters from Abu Faraj Al-Isfahani's famous encyclopedia, "Al-Aghani." In these pages, the men of authority retreat slightly as the poets advance... The knights lower their swords until the whispers of lovers rise... The clash of swords stops until the rhythm of melody and singing continues... Tormented lovers live between the heat of encounter and the bitterness of separation, and when they hear the caravans' chant, they breathe their last breaths... Mohamed El-Mansi Qandil presents us with his sweet style of an elite group, whose intellectual effort has raised them above their ordinary class, within them a seed of restless ambition, oscillating between the dreams they write in the words of poems and the unforgiving traditions of the desert... People who have expressed with all frankness the feelings of raging passion, undisguised lust, and the desire for life, bringing back to us the beauty of the intimacy of bygone nights. The characters in “The Songs” - whether real or imaginary - remain a mixture of love, madness, and desire, soaring high before being brought down by the orbit of illusion... Perhaps this is one of the secrets of the enjoyment of this wonderful book.