Four Ways People Fall In Love

From Ibn Hazm’s 1022AD treatise on love, The Ring of the Dove

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This if I win, the earth’s expanse,
And all mankind, are but as dust,
Yea, the wide world’s inhabitants
Are flies that crawl upon its crust.
Ibn Hazm, translated by A.J. Arberry

Ibn Hazm, an Islamic polymath of the 11th century, conceptualised love in a way similar to the idea of…