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Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-Hamama - The Ring of the Dove

A youth work of an Andalusian poet and philosopher Abu Muhammad `Ali Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi (Córdoba, 994-1064 CE), The Ring of the Dove is a book about love. In it Ibn Hazm talks about love at first sight, about how to recognize whether people are in love, about the butterfies in one stomach when one gazes upon the person that they love. The book was written around 1022 CE in Játiva, south of Valencia and also provide observations of daily life through poetry, giving readers a enthralling view on life and love in Islamic Córdoba (A city in southern Spain).