Lively characters from songs

A brief about the book "Living Personalities from the Songs" Mohamed Al-Mansi Qandil presents to us in this enjoyable book selected personalities from the famous encyclopedia of Abu Faraj Al-Isfahani "Al-Aghani". In these pages, the men of authority step back slightly to make way for the poets… The knights lower their swords so that the whisper of lovers can rise… The clashing of swords stops so that the rhythm of melody and singing can continue… Tormented lovers live between the heat of meeting and the bitterness of separation, and when they hear the call of caravans, they breathe their last… Mohamed Al-Mansi Qandil offers us in his sweet style a selection of people, raised above their ordinary class by their mental effort, with a seed of restless ambition inside them, swinging between the dreams they inscribe in the words of poems, and the merciless desert traditions… People who openly expressed feelings of intense love, frank desire, and the longing for life, reuniting us with the beauty of the intimacy of bygone nights. And the personalities of "Al-Aghani" — whether realistic or fictional — remain a mixture of love, madness, and desire, soaring high before they are brought down by the orbit of illusion… Perhaps this is one of the secrets of the enjoyment of this wonderful book. Personalities from "Al-Aghani" — Mohamed Al-Mansi Qandil